{"id":6678,"date":"2022-03-18T13:50:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T18:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6678"},"modified":"2022-03-18T10:52:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T15:52:41","slug":"wnba-star-detained-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6678","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Star Detained Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Alexis Barton\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner was recently detained in Russia. In late February, Griner\u2019s mugshot was released without much information regarding her whereabouts or wellbeing, aside from the allegation that she had tried to go through Russian customs with drug paraphernalia, including a CBD vaporizer pen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">News of her arrest and subsequent detention came mere days following the Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine, leading many to believe that Griner\u2019s detention is a message from the Russian government to the United States. It is unclear when exactly Griner was arrested, with some sources suggesting that it could have been up to a month before her mugshot was shared.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American advocates are outraged by the arrest, pointing to the inequalities that Black women face both in the United States and, apparently, in Russia regarding drug use. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke out simply saying \u201cFree Brittney\u201d. Many are classifying Griner as a \u201chigh-profile hostage\u201d that is being used as a pawn by the Russian government as they continue to wage war against their neighbors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Griner\u2019s detention was extended until late May. Drug laws in Russia are incredibly stringent, with Griner facing upwards of ten years in prison if convicted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alexis Barton\u00a0 Former WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner was recently detained in Russia. In late February, Griner\u2019s mugshot was released without much information regarding her whereabouts or wellbeing, aside from the allegation that she had tried to go through Russian customs with drug paraphernalia, including a CBD vaporizer pen.\u00a0 News of her arrest and subsequent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":6679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-6678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-summer2019"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/WNBA-Star-Detained-Abroad.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}