Breaking: A Russian court has sentenced US basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years’ prison on drugs charges after finding her guilty of narcotics possession and smuggling
to nine years’ prison on drugs charges after finding her guilty of narcotics possession and smuggling for bringing cannabis-infused vape cartridges into Russia.
WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medallist Brittney Griner is led into court in Khimki, just outside Moscow, on Thursday.Griner pleaded with a Russian judge not to “end her life” with a harsh prison sentence for bringing in vape cartridges containing hashish oil. Griner was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on February 17. She pleaded guilty but said she had neither intended to bring a banned substance to Russia nor to hurt anybody.
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