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Fewer than 1% of defendants in criminal cases are acquitted in Russia
I'm terrified I might be here forever
Ms Griner is considered one of the most dominant players in her sport's history.
Brittney Griner, the American basketball superstar detained in Russia, has written to US President Joe Biden pleading for help.
Ms Griner has been held for over four months on what Russia says are drug charges.
In the letter, which arrived on Monday, she wrote about her fear that she might never return to US soil.
The White House has confirmed that the president has read the letter from the Phoenix Mercury player.
"President Biden has been clear about the need to see all US nationals who are held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad released, including Brittney Griner," said a spokeswoman from the National Security Council on Monday.
US authorities also reiterated that they are working "aggressively - using every available means - to bring her home".
While much of Brittney Griner's letter to the president has been kept private, excerpts reveal her mental state during detention.
"As I sit here in a Russian prison, alone with my thoughts and without the protection of my wife, family, friends, Olympic jersey, or any accomplishments, I'm terrified I might be here forever," she wrote.
"I miss my wife! I miss my family! I miss my teammates! It kills me to know they are suffering so much right now. I am grateful for whatever you can do at this moment to get me home."
Ms Griner also reminded the president in her letter, which arrived on US Independence Day, of her father's military service in Vietnam.
"On the 4th of July, our family normally honours the service of those who fought for our freedom, including my father who is a Vietnam war veteran."
"It hurts thinking about how I usually celebrate this day because freedom means something completely different to me this year" she added.
And she asked the president not to forget other US citizens detained by Russia.
"Please do all you can to bring us home," she wrote. "I voted for the first time in 2020 and I voted for you. I believe in you."
Ms Griner has been held in Russia since her 17 February arrest at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport after cannabis oil was allegedly found in her luggage.
She is currently on trial and if convicted could face up to ten years in prison.
Fewer than 1% of defendants in criminal cases are acquitted in Russia.
However unlike in US courts, even if she is acquitted, Russia's government has the authority to overturn any decision and send her to prison.
One of the most successful players in female basketball, the double Olympic champion plays the Women's NBA (WNBA) off-season in Russia.
Ms Griner plays in the EuroLeague team UMMC Ekaterinburg, where she has worked since 2014.
Roughly half of WNBA players compete overseas in the off-season.
For most, it's a way to augment their domestic income, with WNBA players being paid roughly five times more in Russia than they do in the US.
Ms Griner's trial comes amid Russia's war in Ukraine and her detention was days before the invasion of Ukraine.
While there is no indication that Ms Griner's arrest was connected to the invasion of Ukraine, some US officials have indicated strained US-Russian relations may jeopardise her safe return.
"We don't want Ms Griner to become a pawn in the political battle that's being waged throughout the world right now," said US congressman John Garamendi, a member of the House of Representatives' armed services committee in June.
"The war in Ukraine has essentially severed diplomatic ties between the US and Russia," Mr Garamendi said. "That is going to exacerbate this issue."
Russia denies that her detention is motivated by US-Russia tensions.
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Brittney Griner in court ahead of Wednesday's hearing
Bout was arrested at a Bangkok hotel in 2008
The US has made a "substantial offer" to bring two American detainees home from Russia, its top diplomat has said.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he would raise the issue in a call with Russia's foreign minister next week.
Reports in US media suggest Moscow is interested in exchanging basketball star Brittney Griner for convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed talks were ongoing but insisted no agreement had been reached.
Mr Peskov told the BBC's Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg that he had been surprised to hear of the reports and said he would not comment until "after an agreement has been carried out".
Despite Mr Blinken's claims that he will speak with Mr Lavrov, a Russian foreign ministry spokesperson told the state owned Tass news agency that they were not aware of any scheduled call.
Mr Blinken and Sergei Lavrov have not spoken since the war in Ukraine began.
Both the White House and the Department of State declined on Wednesday to disclose details of the proposed deal.
According to CNN, the US hopes to trade Bout for Ms Griner and fellow American Paul Whelan, who was convicted of espionage in 2020.
The New York Times reports that the US last month offered Russia to swap Bout for Ms Griner and Whelan, and that President Joe Biden had approved the offer.
A lawyer for Bout told Russia's Ria Novosti news outlet he could not comment on the reports of a possible exchange with his client but "this could change soon".
Bout's wife, Alla, told Ria Novosti neither she nor her husband knew anything about plans for such a prisoner trade.
The arms dealer, dubbed the merchant of death, is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence in the US on charges he attempted to sell weapons to a Colombian rebel group to kill Americans. The 2005 film Lord of War staring Nicolas Cage is loosely based on his life.
White House spokesman John Kirby confirmed an offer had been made "several weeks ago" but noted Russia had not "favourably engaged so far".
He also acknowledged negotiations to secure the duo's release were "delicate work" and the decision to go public with word of the proposal was a risky one.
"It's not going to help us get them home if we're negotiating in public," he said.
Mr Kirby added that a White House official had spoken with the Whelan and Griner families ahead of Mr Blinken's announcement, and they would speak again over the next 48 hours.
The deal would be the first concrete action announced by the US government with regard to the release of Ms Griner.
The 31-year-old has been in custody since February after Moscow airport officials found cannabis oil in her luggage, while she was returning to the US after playing in Russia.
At her drug possession trial on Wednesday, Ms Griner said the officials had made her sign documents, but "no-one explained any of it to me".
She also said she had received neither an explanation of her rights nor access to a lawyer in the initial hours of her detention, and that she had to use a translation app on her phone to communicate.
The two-time Olympic gold medallist has pleaded guilty to the drug charges against her but denied deliberately breaking the law, saying she had packed her bags in a rush.
"I still don't understand to this day how [the vape cartridges] ended up in my bags," Ms Griner said.
"With them being accidentally in my bags, I take responsibility, but I did not intend to smuggle or plan to smuggle anything into Russia."
With her detention extended through December, her slow-moving trial will continue in August.
Whelan, a former US Marine, was arrested in Moscow in December 2018. He is serving a 16-year prison sentence.
The US has said it considers both Ms Griner and Whelan to be wrongfully detained by Russia.
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The US has urged Moscow to accept a deal to free basketball player Brittney Griner, who has been sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison.
The double Olympic winner was convicted of possessing and smuggling drugs after admitting to possessing cannabis oil.
White House national security spokesman John Kirby said the US offer was "a serious proposal", but gave no details.
On Friday, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow is ready to discuss the topic.
US media reports suggest Washington is offering a prisoner swap involving a Russian arms trafficker.
Viktor Bout - known as the "merchant of death" - is serving a 25 year-prison sentence in the US.
He could be transferred by Washington to the Russian authorities in exchange for Griner and former US Marine Paul Whelan, the reports say.
Whelan, who has US, British, Canadian and Irish passports, was sentenced in 2020 to 16 years in jail in Russia after being convicted of spying.
Mr Kirby told reporters that the duo were being wrongfully detained and needed to be let go.
On the subject of the US proposal, Mr Kirby said: "We urge them to accept it. They should have accepted it weeks ago when we first made it."
But according to Reuters news agency, one stumbling block is that Russia wants to add convicted murderer Vadim Krasikov, who is in prison in Germany, to the proposed swap.
When questioned about this possibility, Mr Kirby dismissed it, saying: "I don't think we go so far as to even call it a counter-offer."
Griner, 31, told the court she had made an "honest mistake" and had not intended to break the law.
Considered one of the best female players in the world, she was detained in February at an airport near Moscow when vape cartridges containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage. She had come to Russia to play club basketball during the US off-season.
Soon afterwards, Russia invaded Ukraine and her case has become subject to high-profile diplomacy between the US and Russia.
Her defence team said they would appeal against the verdict.
Griner's Phoenix Mercury teammates staged a gesture of solidarity on Thursday, when they and their Connecticut Sun opponents observed 42 seconds of silence before their game, in honour of her number 42 jersey.
US President Joe Biden called her sentencing "unacceptable", adding: "I call on Russia to release her immediately so she can be with her wife, loved ones, friends, and teammates."
Meanwhile Secretary of State Antony Blinken added: "Russia, and any country engaging in wrongful detention, represents a threat to the safety of everyone travelling, working and living abroad."
Mr Blinken raised the issue in a phone call with Mr Lavrov last week, in the first conversation between the two men since the start of the war in Ukraine.
A day after Griner's sentencing, Mr Lavrov said that Moscow is ready to discuss the topic of prisoner exchanges with Washington, but within the framework of an existing diplomatic channel agreed upon by Presidents Putin and Biden, Reuters news agency quotes him as saying.
Both Mr Lavrov and Mr Blinken are now in Cambodia for a meeting of the Association of South-East Asian Nations. The US says Mr Blinken will try to speak with Mr Lavrov again while they are there.
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Published: 06:03 BST, 10 September 2013 | Updated: 06:03 BST, 10 September 2013
A fourth porn actor has reported testing positive for HIV, increasing concern that there is an outbreak among adult entertainment performers. 
Two performers - Cameron Bay and Rod Daily - have come forward and announced that they tested positive, but the third individual who was infected has remained anonymous.
A moratorium is ongoing on shooting in the adult film industry following the news of a fourth performer testing positive for the disease.
Diagnosed: Rod Daily, 32, announced via Twitter that he was recently diagnosed with HIV
Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation told the LA Times , that a fourth porn star had contacted the organization.
Mr Weinstein said: 'We were approached by a male performer who told us he had tested positive' but declined to give further details.
The adult film industry is considering increasing the frequency with which its stars take HIV tests from 28 to 14 days however a decision is yet to be made.
Radar Online reported that 'a dozen female performers have been quarantined as a result of exposure'.
After Cameron Bay came out as being infected, a brief moratorium was issued that stopped all productions of pornographic films, but that was lifted just days later.
When Rod Daily announced via Twitter that he had tested positive for HIV less than two weeks after Bay made her announcement, he advocated for further precautions to be taken.
'Drumroll please!! I'm 32 years old and I'm HIV positive. Acute HIV, which means I recently was infected. For that I am blessed,' Daily wrote on Twitter last Tuesday.
'I'm blessed for the fact that I caught it so early that I can blast that s*** with meds.
'With the tests I have done the doctors have figured out that I was infected within the last month...My antibodies just showed up on a test this week which is scary because they didn't a week ago,' he said in two other tweets.
A trade group representing producers of pornographic movies in Los Angeles called on any of Daily's sexual partners to be tested for the virus.
Positive attitude: Daily, who has been in the adult film industry for eight years, said that hopefully this will encourage porn stars to wear condoms
Out in the open: Daily announced his positive diagnosis on Twitter last week
The group said it could not yet confirm whether Daily truly had contracted the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, but it warned his partners to be tested.
The Free Speech Coalition were the ones to confirm on August 22 that the actress who goes by the name of Cameron Bay was also infected with HIV.
Daily has been linked romantically to Bay on the adult film industry website XBiz.com.
California Assemblyman Isadore Hall, who has been trying for months to get a bill passed in the state Assembly mandating the use of condoms in sex scenes, said Daily's reported infection shows the need for such a regulation.
'This is the second individual within a week and a half to contract HIV in the industry,' said Hall, a Democrat. 'There will probably be more.'
The multibillion-dollar adult film industry is centered in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles.
Distraught: Cameron Bay's agent says his client, whose recent HIV diagnosis has brought the porn industry to a standstill, is 'distraught' over the news
Risk: Xander Corvus, left, who played Weiner in the movie with Sydney Leathers, had unprotected sex with Cameron Bay, right, a few weeks ago - who has just been told she has HIV
Debut: Sydney Leathers porn movie was released yesterday where she stars alongside Xander Corvus
The industry has vigorously opposed efforts to require condom use on set, protesting against a 2012 voter-approved measure requiring condoms to be used in Los Angeles Cou
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