Brittney Griner meets with U.S. officers for first time since Russian detainment in February

U.S. consular officers have been in a position to go to with WNBA star Brittney Griner in Russia for the primary time Wednesday and reported that she was in “good situation,” a State Division spokesman advised CNN.

Griner has been in custody since Feb. 17 on prices that she tried to smuggle vape cartridges containing cannabis oil into Russia. The U.S. State Division had mentioned Russian officers have been denying them entry to Griner or two American males who’re in custody, as required by worldwide legislation.

Griner has been speaking together with her household by means of her Russian attorneys, and a supply near her advised ESPN final week that they knew she was “OK.”

State Division spokesman Ned Value advised CNN he could not supply extra particulars however that officers have been attempting to ensure Griner is “handled pretty” as she works her method by means of the Russian authorized system.

Griner is at present in pretrial detainment. A choose lately prolonged the investigation interval to Might 19, however consultants say it’s doubtless prosecutors will search and obtain one other extension. Beneath Russian legislation, prosecutors have as much as a yr — and in distinctive circumstances, 18 months — earlier than they’re required to deliver her to trial.

Two different Individuals, Trevor Reed and Paul Whelan, have been in custody for greater than two years. State Division officers didn’t instantly reply to a query about whether or not members of the U.S. consulate in Moscow had been in a position to go to them as effectively.