I get your point. But again, I don’t believe she brought anything of the sort into Russia. The timing is suspicious. And again, expatriate defendants are encouraged to “confess” in the hopes of leniency.
As to the rest of your post, one is a black lesbian. The other is not. That’s the difference and why her life is more at risk in a Russian gulag:
“A Russian prison rights advocate said that Griner being “lesbian, American and Black” puts her in
particular danger. This makes her a prime target for harassment in Russian prison, where extremely violent homophobia and racism abound, and where the U.S. is seen as “a mortal enemy.””
The WNBA star is now being held at a colony in Mordovia, 350 miles from Moscow. Her nine-year prison sentence is set to end in 2031.
epgn.com
Very much more at link.
But yeah. I understand the sentiment about bailing out people who go to dangerous, foreign countries. And the price we pay to do that. Like the kid who came back brain dead from North Korea. Yet he’s another one who I do not think did one thing wrong there. He was a political prisoner, IMO.
Awful