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Moscow (AFP) - Basketball star Brittney Griner, whose plight has generated widespread anger in the United States, has been sent to a remote Russian penal colony, her lawyers said on Thursday. The US athlete was handed nine years in prison in August for possessing vape cartridges with a small quantity of cannabis oil, after she was arrested at a Moscow airport in February. The 32-year-old's case comes amid fierce tensions between Moscow and Washington over Russia's military offensive in Ukraine. "Brittney began serving her sentence at IK-2 in Mordovia," lawyers Maria Blagovolina and Alexander B...
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Moscow (AFP) - US basketball star Brittney Griner, who was found guilty of drug possession and trafficking in Russia, has appealed her nine-year jail sentence, her lawyers said Monday. The two-time Olympic basketball gold medallist and Women's NBA champion was arrested at a Moscow airport in February for possessing vape cartridges with a small amount of cannabis oil. "Brittney Griner's defence team filed an appeal for the verdict," her legal team said on the messenger Telegram. The date of the appeal hearing is yet to be set. The 31-year-old, who was in Russia to play for the professional Ye...
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Washington (AFP) - Former US diplomat Bill Richardson said Sunday that he was "optimistic" about efforts to negotiate a "two for two" prisoner swap with Russia that would free US basketball star Brittney Griner and another American. Richardson, a former ambassador to the UN, has negotiated the release of several Americans held in other countries. Reports last month said he was expected to travel to Russia for talks over Griner, who on Thursday was sentenced to nine years in prison on a drug charge. While insisting Sunday that he is only a "catalyst" in any negotiations, Richardson's mention of...
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Uncasville (United States) (AFP) - The head coach of Brittney Griner's WNBA team said the nine-year sentence handed out to its star player by a Russian court on Thursday was devastating -- even though it was no surprise. "We knew this was coming, we've been prepared for it," said Vanessa Nygaard, Phoenix Mercury's head coach, noting the minuscule acquittal rates in Russian courts where Griner was convicted of smuggling drugs into the country. "We know we weren't hanging our hopes on the Russian justice system. "But we were literally getting ready to come out for shoot around today when this wa...
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Khimki (Russia) (AFP) - A Russian court on Thursday sentenced US basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison over drug smuggling as US President Joe Biden called the ruling "unacceptable". The court "found the defendant guilty" of smuggling and possessing "a significant amount of narcotics", judge Anna Sotnikova told a court in the town of Khimki just outside Moscow. Sotnikova sentenced Griner, one of the world's greatest basketball players, to nine years in a Russian penal colony and said she would also have to pay a fine of one million rubles ($16,590). "I love my family," Griner...
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Khimki (Russia) (AFP) - US basketball star Brittney Griner is "hoping" to return home from Russia where she is standing trial on drug smuggling charges, her lawyer said Tuesday, amid talk of a prisoner exchange with Washington. Griner, a two-time Olympic basketball gold medallist and Women's NBA champion who had played in Russia, was detained in February, just days before Moscow launched its military intervention in Ukraine. The 31-year-old athlete was charged with drug smuggling for possessing vape cartridges with cannabis oil and is on trial in the town of Khimki just outside Moscow. Griner...
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Washington (AFP) - US basketball star Brittney Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and WNBA champion, has been detained in Moscow on charges of carrying vape cartridges that contained cannabis oil in her luggage. A statement on Saturday from the Russian Federal Customs Service announcing her arrest came as tensions between Moscow and the West have soared over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It wasn't clear exactly how long Griner had been in custody, with the customs service saying only that the arrest occurred "in February." According to the statement, an inspection of hand luggage carried...
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New York (AFP) - Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving says he's "doing what's best for me" in declining a Covid-19 vaccine, a move that will see him sidelined from NBA play. Irving addressed the issue on Instagram Live on Wednesday, confirming that he hoped to be back on the floor with teammates eventually. But he said he would not bow to pressure to be vaccinated, while insisting he was neither anti- nor pro-vaccines. "Do what's best for you, but I am not an advocate for either side," Irving said. "I am doing what's best for me. "I know the consequences here, and if it means that I'm judged and de...
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Washington (AFP) - The helicopter crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter and six other passengers was probably caused by the pilot becoming disoriented after flying into clouds, investigators said Tuesday. Ara Zobayan, the pilot of the chartered Island Express helicopter, probably suffered "spatial disorientation," the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said. Also likely contributing to the January 26, 2020 crash in Calabasas, California was "self-induced pressure" on the pilot to complete the flight for his celebrity client, the NTSB said. The NTSB also cited "inadequ...
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Washington (AFP) - The pilot flying the helicopter that crashed last year killing NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter and six other passengers likely became disoriented after flying into clouds, investigators said Tuesday. The pilot of the chartered Island Express helicopter likely suffered "spatial disorientation," Robert Sumwalt, the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), said at a public hearing into the crash. Shortly before the crash, the pilot said he was climbing to 4,000 feet but the helicopter was actually in a left turn and descending rapidly, the NTSB said. "T...
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