{"id":2797,"date":"2022-08-04T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2022-08-04T12:39:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:39:23","slug":"us-woman-basketball-player-brittany-griner-sentenced-to-9-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/2022\/08\/04\/us-woman-basketball-player-brittany-griner-sentenced-to-9-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"US Woman Basketball Player Brittany Griner Sentenced To 9 Years In Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The two-time Olympic gold medalist and WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia for over five months, was found guilty on drug charges in a Moscow-area court Thursday. She was then sentenced to nine years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Charge d&#39;Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Russia delivers statement after Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison, calling it &quot;a miscarriage of justice.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BrDIlElv2H\">https:\/\/t.co\/BrDIlElv2H<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A5ERURstTK\">pic.twitter.com\/A5ERURstTK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1555224637386129408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>President Biden quickly condemned the sentence saying \u201cToday, American citizen Brittney Griner received a prison sentence that is one more reminder of what the world already knew: Russia is wrongfully detaining Brittney,&#8221; He also is quoted saying &#8220;release her immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her sentence will be appealed and the US government will continue its efforts to get her released. They have reportedly considered swapping Griner for armed dealer Viktor Bout<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Biden administration has offered to exchange Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout for Americans Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNN<\/a> <br><br>Griner has been detained for 160 days. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iGcpT8P07v\">pic.twitter.com\/iGcpT8P07v<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1552364912395141121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two-time Olympic gold medalist and WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia for over five months, was found guilty on drug charges in a Moscow-area court Thursday. She was then sentenced to nine years in prison. President Biden quickly condemned the sentence saying \u201cToday, American citizen Brittney Griner received a prison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}