Unfairly Condemned, Brittney Griner Is the Hostage of the Diplomatic War Between America and Russia.

Putin is using the Griner affair to demand the release of ultra-dangerous Russian prisoners in exchange.

The outcome was hardly in doubt. Here is the American basketball star sentenced by the court of Khimki, in the suburbs of Moscow, to 9 years of detention in a penitentiary colony. In Russia, acquittals hardly exist and, in any case, Brittney Griner, advised by her Russian lawyers to show goodwill, had pleaded partially guilty to the charges against her.

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