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.
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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