State Department officials met with members of Brittney Griner’s WNBA team on Monday to discuss the star’s months-long detention in Russia.
Griner, a seven-time WNBA all-star for the Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, has been
, when she was arrested at an airport outside Moscow. Russian authorities allege that she illegally brought vape cartridges containing hashish oil into the country, a crime that could carry a prison sentence of up to 10 years.The U.S. government has been pushing for regular meetings with Griner, whose pretrial detention was extended last month.
At the time of her arrest, Griner, 31, was returning to the Russian team UMMC Ekaterinburg, for which she plays during the WNBA offseason. Her detention“We’re here to do whatever we can to amplify and keep BG at the forefront, which is more important than any basketball game and anything else that’s going on in our lives,” star player Diana Taurasi
posted on Twitter by the Mercury after the meeting. “We want BG to come home as soon as possible, it’s number one on our list.”The Mercury are in D.C. to play against the Washington Mystics on Tuesday night. Their meeting with the State Department lasted an hour and took place at the team’s hotel, ESPN reported.in a Twitter statement Monday that it had been 116 days since Griner was detained: “She’s our teammate, she’s an American and we want her back home.
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