Brittney Griner Sentenced to 9 Years for Bringing Drugs into Russia

[S209]

Do you feel the same way about this case? @S209

That was the case I was referring to.

IINM Frum Yidden have been arrested and faced such sentencing in the past.

[CountValentine]

That was the case I was referring to.

Glad to someone else has goalposts. 

[S209]

I don’t agree with minimizing what she did. She made a very stupid mistake and shouldn’t feign innocence. (And no, after hearing what happened, it’s actually not the same as having something in your transferred luggage during a two hour stopover. I don’t read the laws of the country when I remain in the airport.)

*Also*, 9 years for this “crime” seems incredibly unreasonable, although of course it s a foreign country and we don’t (and shouldn’t) get to decide the laws of a foreign country. We should, however, lobby on behalf of a U.S. citizen when we feel she is being held unjustly. It’s worse than usual since our relations with this country are very strained right now, to say the least.

*Also*, our criminal justice system has many issues of its own that need addressing, although I’d like to believe it serves its purpose better than many other systems including Russia’s.

[aygart]

That's exactly what I was talking about. The hypocritical statements made by politicians, aka lawmakers

Anything else becomes a judgement call and personal mood.

[Dawie]

Glad to someone else has goalposts. 

you should watch this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Paradise_(1998_film)

[Dawie]

you should watch this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Paradise_(1998_film)

Shame about Anne Heche

[Kobe Bryant]

“Russia freed WNBA player Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, with the U.S. releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, American officials said. The swap, at a time of heightened tensions over Ukraine, achieved a top goal for Joe Biden, but carried a heavy price — and left behind an American jailed for nearly four years in Russia.

The fact that the deal was a one-for-one swap was a surprise given that U.S. officials had for months expressed their their determination to bring home both Griner and Paul Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive jailed in Russia since December 2018 on espionage charges that his family and the U.S. government has said are baseless.

In releasing Bout, the U.S. freed a a former Soviet Army lieutenant colonel whom the Justice Department once described as one of the world’s most prolific arms dealers.”