KHIMKI — U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner told a court on Wednesday she was not read her rights when detained at a Moscow airport in February, as she…
The 31-year-old, a Women’s National Basketball Association star who has played in Russia during the league’s offseason, was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on Feb. 17 with vape cartridges containing hashish oil in her luggage.
Griner, a two-time Olympic champion, was on her way to join her Russian team, UMMC Ekaterinburg, for the playoffs. “My rights were not read to me,” Griner said at Khimki District Court outside Moscow, according to a translator.Seated in the defendant’s cage, Griner said she was provided with a translator at the airport but he only said “sign this, sign that” without explaining the content of the documents.She said on Wednesday that she still did not understand how the vape cartridges could have ended up in her luggage, saying she had packed hurriedly and could accidentally have included them.
The case against her has highlighted strained relations between Russia and the United States that have plunged to a new post-Cold War low over the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.
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