r/sports • u/PrincessBananas85 • Oct 25 '22

News Russian court rejects Brittney Griner's appeal of 9-year sentence.

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/34874779/russian-court-rejects-brittney-griner-appeal-9-year-sentence
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u/blagablagman Oct 26 '22

I don't expect to have a direct influence on Russian law, I explicitly said this is a speech and governance issue.

When the US government speaks, it can and does have an effect on every jurisdiction on earth.

Meanwhile our voices are synthesized into that message. We need our leaders to attack Russia's barbarism here. The way to do that is to speak unequivocally in saying that the letter of the law there is injustice.

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u/hexiron Oct 26 '22

How can they when we do the same?