{"id":89010,"date":"2022-10-06T17:34:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T17:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/brittney-griners-wife-hopes-putin-will-have-mercy-and-negotiate-for-her-release\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T17:34:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T17:34:58","slug":"brittney-griners-wife-hopes-putin-will-have-mercy-and-negotiate-for-her-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/brittney-griners-wife-hopes-putin-will-have-mercy-and-negotiate-for-her-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner’s wife hopes Putin will have ‘mercy’ and negotiate for her release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The wife of Brittney Griner, the American professional basketball player jailed in Russia, said Thursday she thinks it’s going to take \u201cmercy\u201d from Russian President Vladimir Putin to get Griner home.\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cI feel like at this point it’s going to take Putin to have that same mindset and say ‘You know what, Brittney Griner \u2013 who came to my country for seven, eight years, and helped my country be recognized through sport, paid taxes in my country, helped my country \u2013 I’m going to sit at a table, and I’m going to be clear about what I need in return for her release,’ so that we can actually get a meeting of the minds between these two ‘Cherelle Griner told CBS.\n <\/p>\n

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The WNBA star was sentenced in August to nine years in a Russian jail after pleading guilty to drug-smuggling. She played in Russia during the WNBA offseason.\n <\/p>\n

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Cherelle Griner, who hasn’t seen her wife in nearly eight months, said \u201con its face it seems like my wife is a hostage \u2013 to know the foreign government is sitting down and negotiating for her release \u2013 she’s a hostage.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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The couple have only spoken twice since the ordeal began in February. After the second phone call, Cherelle Griner said she knew her wife was not OK. \u201cIt was the most disturbing phone call I’d experienced \u2026 you could hear it; you could hear she that was not OK.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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Cherelle Griner said she wants people to see that her wife has had enough. \u201cI work in the legal field, I do believe a crime should warrant a punishment,\u201d she said.\n <\/p>\n

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Brittney Griner’s lawyers have appealed the sentence and President Joe Biden is working toward a potential prisoner swap with Russia for Griner and former Marine Paul Whelan.\n <\/p>\n

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A Russian court is scheduled to hear the appeal on October 25.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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CNN \u2014 The wife of Brittney Griner, the American professional basketball player jailed in Russia, said Thursday she thinks it’s going to take \u201cmercy\u201d from Russian President Vladimir Putin to get Griner home. \u201cI feel like at this point it’s going to take Putin to have that same mindset and say ‘You know what, Brittney …<\/p>\n

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