The State Department says Russia refuses to negotiate seriously to free the basketball star Brittney Griner, who was sent to a penal colony with a nine-year sentence on a cannabis charge.
Author: Ivan Nechepurenko and Richard Pérez-Peña
Russian Court Sentences Griner to 9 Years in a Penal Colony
Amid the hostility over the war in Ukraine, a court imposed nearly the maximum possible sentence on the American basketball star Brittney Griner, intensifying calls to win her release.