WNBA star Brittney Griner appeared in court for a preliminary hearing ahead of her July 1 trial, more than four months after she was arrested at a Moscow airport for cannabis possession. On Monday, the court extended her detention for another six months.
for cannabis possession, a Russian court has set the start date of the criminal trial of U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner for July 1.
U.S. WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner arrives to a hearing at the Khimki Court, outside Moscow on June 27, 2022. -Griner's detention and trial come at an extraordinarily low point in Moscow-Washington relations. She was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport less than a week before Russia sent troops into Ukraine, which aggravated already-high tensions with sweeping sanctions by the United States and Russia's denunciation of U.S. weapon supplies to Ukraine.
Russian news media have repeatedly raised speculation that she could be swapped for Russian arms trader Viktor Bout, nicknamed"The Merchant of Death," who is serving a 25-year sentence on conviction of conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens and providing aid to a terrorist organization.
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