US Embassy officials visit Brittney Griner in Russia prison

WASHINGTON, 04 November 2022, (TON): Officials at the US Embassy in Moscow visited jailed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday, just weeks after a Russian court rejected her appeal of her nine-year sentence for drug possession.

State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a tweet “the American representatives saw firsthand her tenacity and perseverance despite her present circumstances.”

Price said “the Biden administration is continuing to press for the immediate release of Griner and Paul Whelan, who was sentenced in 2020 to 16 years in prison in Russia on espionage-related charges that he and his family say are bogus, and “fair treatment for every detained American.”

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