Congress pressing for release of Texans Brittney Griner and Trevor Reed, still detained in Russia
. “But obviously, it’s also happening in the context of really strained relations. I do think that it’s really unusual that we’ve not been granted access to her from our embassy and our consular services.”, before the war Russia is waging on the country broke out. He said “the Russian criminal justice system is very different than ours, very opaque.”
Allred said, for him, he has a collegiate connection to Griner; Allred played football at Baylor University, and Griner played basketball. Griner isn’t the only Texan detained in Russia amid the Ukrainian conflict; Trevor Reed, a former Marine and Fort Worth native, has been imprisoned in Russia for more than two years on what U.S. officials said are trumped-up charges.
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