WNBA star and Olympian Brittney Griner, who was released from a Russian prison last year, encouraged American journalist Evan Gershkovich in an 온라인카지노사이트 News interview to "stay strong" following his sentencing in Russia on Friday.
after he was found guilty of espionage in a case that his employer, The Wall Street Journal, and the U.S. government has condemned as a sham.
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WATCH HERE, 32, denied any wrongdoing in the case that in the city of Yekaterinburg, over a year after he was arrested in the southern Russian city on espionage charges.
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SIGN UP Griner, who was released in December after serving about 10 months in a , said on Friday her heart goes out to Gershkovich and his loved ones.
“I went through that, and I understand what that means," Griner said.
"We have to get him back, we have to," she said, with a message to the journalist: "Don't lost hope."
In February 2022, Griner traveled to Russia to play her eighth season in the country’s women’s basketball league. She was arrested at a Moscow airport after two vials of cannabis oil, totaling less than a gram, were found in her luggage at the airport in Moscow.
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Griner pleaded guilty at her trial in July but said she had no criminal intent, and packed the canisters inadvertently as she hurriedly prepared for her flight. She was to nine years in prison.
She was released after the Biden administration her release in exchange for .
Griner is gearing up to head to Paris for her third Olympics — her first time traveling abroad since leaving Russia.
“I’m ready, I’m at a good place,” Griner said, adding that she has “a really good support system.”
Gershkovich had been found guilty of collecting secret information about the activities of a defense enterprise for the production and repair of military equipment on instructions from U.S. intelligence services.
Sverdlovsk Region Court’s judge Andrei Mineyev remanded Gershkovich into custody until his sentence can be legally enforced. The journalist is also expected to cover the legal fees, amounting to just over $75.
His defense team has 15 days to appeal the sentence.
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