Anna Chernova, Dakin Andone and Zahra Ullah, CNN, Author at newswatchplus.ph https://www.newswatchplus.ph Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:56:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 /wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-logo-nwp-32x32.png Anna Chernova, Dakin Andone and Zahra Ullah, CNN, Author at newswatchplus.ph https://www.newswatchplus.ph 32 32 Russian court upholds Brittney Griner’s drug smuggling conviction https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2022/10/26/russian-court-upholds-brittney-griners-drug-smuggling-conviction/ Wed, 26 Oct 2022 11:39:01 +0000 https://newswatchplus-staging.azurewebsites.net/?p= (CNN) — A judge in Russia has left Brittney Griner’s verdict in place, upholding on Tuesday the US basketball star’s conviction on drug smuggling charges and reducing only slightly her nine-year prison sentence. Griner’s sentence will be modified to count the time she spent in pretrial detention after her February 17 arrest at a Moscow airport,

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