{"id":49786,"date":"2022-06-14T04:50:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T04:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/brittney-griners-team-meets-with-us-state-department-over-her-detention\/"},"modified":"2022-06-14T04:50:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T04:50:09","slug":"brittney-griners-team-meets-with-us-state-department-over-her-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/brittney-griners-team-meets-with-us-state-department-over-her-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner’s Team Meets With US State Department Over Her Detention"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US State Department officials met on Monday with Brittney Griner’s WNBA team, the Phoenix Mercury, to discuss the status of Griner’s monthslong detention in Russia and efforts made toward securing her release.<\/p>\n

Griner, one of the WNBA’s most recognizable stars, has been held in Russia since Feb. 17, after customs officials accused her of carrying hashish oil in her luggage at an airport near Moscow.<\/p>\n

In May, the State Department said it determined that Griner had been “wrongfully detained.”<\/p>\n

“It’s something that we’ve all talked about intimately as a group, and now knowing the State Department at the highest level, from US President Joe Biden to the team that is working on bringing back all Americans who are wrongfully detained, gives us a lot of confidence that they’re working on it, \u201dDiana Taurasi, the Mercury’s star guard, said in a statement. “Anything that we can do on our side to amplify and to put BG first will be our No. 1 priority.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n