Moscow district court refused on Tuesday attractive Presented by an American basketball player Brittney Griner and therefore upheld his conviction for drug smuggling into the country.
However, the Russian Justice agreed to slightly lower the nine-year sentence, with Griner being sentenced to one and a half days less each day he spent in preventive detention. For now It has not been confirmed how many days the sentence was reduced, Although it seems obvious that there will not be a significant decrease.
According to the Russian news agency, the three judges in charge of the case said, “The court’s decision against Brittney Griner was changed in terms of compensation for her stay in the pre-trial detention centre, the rest of the decision remained unchanged.” TASS.
Griner was arrested at Moscow airport on February 17. have cartridges containing oil marijuana. He was sentenced to nine years in prison for drug possession and trafficking after pleading guilty and assuming he had made a “mistake” during the trial.
US insists on trade
The White House, considering that Griner’s arrest was unfair, trade player and ex-Marine Paul Whelan –Convict accused of espionage in Russia– by Tajik arms dealer Victor BoutKnown as the ‘war merchant’ who is serving a 25-year prison sentence in the US.
In fact, the White House reacted quickly to the rejection of Griner’s appeal and the American “He will continue to be unjustly detained in intolerable conditions” After going through “another bogus court process”.
As detailed by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, in a statement, President Joe Biden’s Administration “continued to interact with Russia” so that both Griner and Whelan could return to the United States.
“The President has shown that he is willing to give and take what he can. Tough decisions to bring Americans home“, settled in Sullivan.