The Biden administration has worked “every available channel” in recent weeks in a bid to bring home Brittney Griner from Russia, President Joe Biden’s top national security adviser said.
Griner, a basketball superstar, will serve nine years in a penal colony unless the U.S. government is able to secure her release. A Russian court upheld the sentence Tuesday.
The WNBA player continues to be held “under intolerable circumstances,” Sullivan said, after facing “another sham judicial proceeding.” She was convicted in August after pleading guilty to carrying vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage through a Moscow airport.
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