{"id":26258,"date":"2022-10-04T06:44:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T06:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=26258"},"modified":"2022-10-04T06:44:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T06:44:51","slug":"russian-court-to-hear-brittney-griners-appeal-on-october-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/10\/04\/russian-court-to-hear-brittney-griners-appeal-on-october-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian court to hear Brittney Griner’s appeal on October 25\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Russian Courts will hear the appeal filed by American basketball player Brityney Griner\u00a0on October 25, after she was sentenced in August to 9 years in prison for drug possession and smuggling.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Moscow Region Court will be in charge of studying the appeal, a court spokeswoman informed local agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hearing, which will assess the fairness of the sentence issued on August 4 by the City Court of Khimki (Moscow region), will start at 11.00 am. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At that time, the judge found the sportswoman “guilty of committing the crime” stipulated by Articles 228 and 229.1 of the Russian Criminal Code <\/strong>(possession and trafficking of drugs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The appeal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The world and Olympic champion, who was arrested last February at a Moscow airport with cannabis oil in her suitcase, accepted the ruling, although during the trial she asked for clemency after admitting her mistake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, her lawyers, who questioned the cannabis samples taken by the Russian police after her arrest as evidence, appealed the ruling on August 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian legislation punishes the crime committed by the 2.06-meter American, who plays for the Russian team UMMC Yekaterinburg<\/strong>, with a maximum of ten years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken<\/strong>, suggested to his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, the exchange of Griner and fellow American Paul Whelan<\/strong>, who was sentenced to 16 years for espionage, for Russian “merchant of death” Victor But<\/strong>, who is serving 25 years in a US prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A negotiation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The White House rejected Russia’s “counter proposal,” which sought to include a second Russian prisoner in the exchange, Chechen Vadim Krasikov<\/strong>, CNN reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In mid-September, US President\u00a0Joe Biden<\/strong>, who has called for Griner’s immediate release, welcomed the basketball player’s relatives to the Oval Office of the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US maintains that it has made a “serious proposal for Griner and Whelan to return home,” but argues that Moscow has not yet replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly thereafter, the Russian Foreign Ministry asserted that it is ready to negotiate the exchange of Russian prisoners for US prisoners at any time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Russian Courts will hear the appeal filed by American basketball player Brityney Griner\u00a0on October 25, after she was sentenced in August to 9 years in prison for drug possession and smuggling.\u00a0 The Moscow Region Court will be in charge of studying the appeal, a court spokeswoman informed local agencies. The hearing, which will assess […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[5754,8311,9306,6975,6734,5178,6044,6494,8128,9331,7823,10507,7234,11273,6144,7704,9127,9997,2471,12005,6843,5340,3283,5441,11385,10222,421,3805,8306,11926,6431,3457,5217,11307,6815,9313,11581,6348,11331,1151,6571,2982,3954,36,594],"class_list":["post-26258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-airport","tag-antony-blinken","tag-appeal","tag-arrest","tag-basketball","tag-biden","tag-blinken","tag-brittney-griner","tag-cannabis","tag-city","tag-code","tag-court","tag-death","tag-drug","tag-drugs","tag-espionage","tag-february","tag-guilty","tag-joe-biden","tag-judge","tag-lavrov","tag-moscow","tag-nba","tag-oil","tag-olympic","tag-olympic-champion","tag-police","tag-president","tag-prison","tag-prisoners","tag-release","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-sentence","tag-sergey-lavrov","tag-trafficking","tag-trial","tag-us","tag-us-president","tag-us-secretary-of-state","tag-white","tag-white-house","tag-will","tag-world","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}