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May 6, 2024 · Brittney Griner on the court in September 2023. When WNBA star Brittney Griner arrived at her county cell in Russia in 2022, despair washed over her. "I did not feel like a human at that point ...
- Griner Was Arrested and Detained in February
- Public Outcry Over Griner’s Detention
- How Russia Is Responding
- The Trial
- The Sentence
On Feb. 17, Griner, who plays for the Phoenix Mercury, was taken into custody at Sheremetyevo International Airport near Moscow after her arrival to play in the off-season with UMMC Ekaterinburg, a Russian women’s basketball team where Griner has been a star for the past seven years. Airport authorities allegedly found four vape cartridges containi...
On July 4, President Biden received a handwritten letter Griner sent from her detention center in Russia in which she asked him not to forget about her or the other American detainees. “Please do all you can to bring us home,” Griner wrote. “I voted for the first time in 2020 and I voted for you. I believe in you. I still have so much good to do wi...
On March 5, the U.S. State Department issued a “do not travel” advisory for Russia in light of the invasion of Ukraine, warning that Americans faced potential harassment from Russian security officials and that the U.S. Embassy in Moscow could only offer limited assistance to Americans there. Despite public outcry over Griner’s case, relatively few...
Griner’s trial began July 1, with very little public information about what type of evidence Russian prosecutors would bring against Griner. After months of delays and detention extensions, Griner entered a guilty plea at her second trial hearing. “I’d like to plead guilty, your honor. But there was no intent. I didn’t want to break the law,” Grine...
On Aug. 4, Griner was convictedand sentenced to nine years in prison. The judge issued a fine of 1 million rubles, the equivalent of $16,700. President Joe Biden said the sentence was “unacceptable” and called on Russia to immediately release Griner. U.S. President Joe Biden denounced the verdict and sentence as “unacceptable.” “I call on Russia to...
May 2, 2024 · Updated 8:41 PM PDT, May 1, 2024. PHOENIX (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner said she thought about killing herself during her first few weeks in a Russian jail after her 2022 arrest on drug-related charges. Griner spoke for the first time about her monthslong detention in Russia during an hourlong interview that aired Wednesday night on ABC.
May 6, 2024 · Elena Burnett. May 06, 2024. When WNBA star Brittney Griner arrived at her county cell in Russia in 2022, despair washed over her. “I did not feel like a human at that point, and just everything was setting in on the unknown,” she told NPR. “I just sat there and thought about ending it – just came up with a plan on how I could do it.”.
May 7, 2024 · Brittney Griner stands in a defendants' cage before a court hearing in Khimki, Russia, on Aug. 2, 2022. Ever since her release from a Russian penal colony in December 2022, WNBA star and Olympic ...
- Terry Gross
Dec 17, 2022 · Dec. 17, 2022. Brittney Griner, a W.N.B.A. star and two-time Olympic gold medalist who had been detained in Russia since February on drug charges, was released from custody on Dec. 8 in a prisoner ...
May 2, 2024 · Griner had been able to send a location pin through WhatsApp of where she was being held, and Colas frantically arranged for a Russian lawyer, Alex Boykov, to meet her. When Boykov arrived ...
