In a rare move, the State Department has offered Russia a deal in hopes of securing the release of WNBA player Brittney Griner and another imprisoned American.
earlier this month, but claimed she did not intend to bring the vape cartridges into Russia, stating that she packed them by mistake during frantic preparations for her trip. Maria Blagovolina, one of Griner’s lawyers in Russia, argued that the basketball star’s doctor-prescribed use of marijuana for chronic pain indicate she “may have used it for medical but not recreational purposes.”
Whelan, meanwhile, was detained in Moscow in 2018 and charged with espionage and sentenced to 16 years in prison in June 2020.
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