{"id":101744,"date":"2022-08-09T21:40:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T21:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/36959440"},"modified":"2022-08-09T21:40:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T21:40:16","slug":"36959440","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/36959440","title":{"rendered":"Should We Fight for Brittney Griner&#8217;s Release?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The basketball player was sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colonyRoss D. Franklin\/AP PhotoBy now, we&#8217;ve all heard about Brittney Griner&#8211;the American basketball player who was sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony for bringing THC oil into Russia.Griner was detained on February 17th and held in prison amid growing tensions between Russia and the United States. She was sentenced on August 4th by Judge Anna Sotnikova, who found that Giner intentionally broke Russian law. Under Russian law, Griner has 10 days to appeal her sentence, which her defense team is doing.Griner pled guilty, maintaining that she made a mistake. She is quoted as saying:&#8221;That&#8217;s why I pled guilty to my charges. I understand everything that&#8217;s being said against me, the charges that are against me, and that is why I pled guilty. But, I had no intent to break any Russian laws.&#8221;The reactions to the sentencing were swift.President Biden released a statement saying:&#8221;Today, American citizen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The basketball player was sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony. By now, we&#8217;ve all heard about Brittney Griner&#8211;the American basketball player who was sentenced to nine years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}