(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, 04 AUG - "Brittney is very ill, it is difficult to talk to him".
The lawyers of the US basketball champion said this after the sentence in Russia of nine years for possession and drug trafficking.
Griner's lawyers have announced that they will appeal the sentence for which they now have 10 days.
The president of the United States Joe Biden also intervened in defense of the basketball player.
"Russia is holding" Brittney Griner "unfairly. It is unacceptable and I ask Russia to release her immediately," he said.
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