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WASHINGTON – The Biden administration has determined that WNBA star Brittney Griner is being wrongfully detained in Russia, meaning the United States will more aggressively work to secure her release even as the legal case against her plays out, the State Department said Tuesday.
The United States said Tuesday that Russia has unjustly detained basketball star Brittney Griner, as her league announced plans to honor her at all venues for the start of the season. More than two months after she was seized amid soaring tensions over Ukraine, the State Department said that her case was being turned over to Roger Carstens, the US special envoy in charge of hostages. "The Department of State has determined that the Russian Federation has wrongfully detained US citizen Brittney Griner," a State Department spokesperson said.
The WNBA will honor Phoenix’s Brittney Griner with a floor decal and allow the Mercury to pay her without it counting against the team’s cap, the league announced Tuesday.
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Cambio en el caso de Brittney Griner (31 años y 2,06 m). El Gobierno de Estados Unidos ha cambiado su estatus y ahora entiende que la pívot de la WNBA fue detenida injustamente por Rusia, según la. En cualquier caso, no se la considera una rehén, una clasificación legal diferente. ¿Qué significa? Dos cosas. Por un lado, que las autoridades norteamericanas no van a esperar a que su caso se juzgue en los tribunales rusos, sino que negociaran para traerla de vuelta a casa.
By Jennifer Hansler and Wayne Sterling, CNN
Brittney Griner, the American basketball player being detained in Russia, will have her initials and jersey number 42 stencilled onto the courts of all 12 WNBA teams this season, the league said on Tuesday.
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