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American basketball player Brittney Griner had appealed her sentence in Russia to nine years in prison for cannabis trafficking.
Russian justice on Tuesday rejected the appeal of American basketball player Brittney Griner, sentenced in Russia to nine years in prison for cannabis trafficking and who asked the court to reduce her sentence “traumatic».
The court decided toleave unchanged“the verdict pronounced last August against the American basketball star, declared judge Elena Vorontsova, while specifying that justice will take into account the months already spent in prison by Ms. Griner, imprisoned since March, and count each day of this detention like a day and a half.