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Officials in moscow have not yet been able to visit britney griner. russia has an obligation under the vienna convention to allow consular access, to allow our officials to see her. we are going to continue to press for that and see that russia lives up to its international obligations. were going to do everything we can to see that her rights are respected. >> theres this russian backed prison monitoring group who said theyve spoken with griner with the help of a translator with the help of her...

Who basically said the silence is about not wanting to cause harm. we respect that, but multiple things can exist. people can express concern and issue calls to our elected officials to prioritize her case to get her home while also not wading into geopolitical matters that most of us are not qualified to speak on at any depth. thats why the petition is specifically geared towards pressuring elected officials to get her home rather than wading into other things. >> tj, i want to bring you into t...

From the state department one of their top priorities is any american detained abroad, particularly in belligerent countries, we do everything we can to get them out. we have other americans we are trying to get out like trevor reed, the texans, paul whalen as well. that is one of our top priorities. weve requested consular access for three weeks now, have not been granted that. but the state department and certainly i are not going to give up on trying to get access to her. >> the russian gover...

Conduct ourselves and where we go, and its just a very troubling circumstance that that were dealing with. and this whole war in ukraine as well, because it really speaks to the kinds of regimes that are in charge here. terrorist griff its really concerning, and we dont know a lot of facts about the case, and we dont even know where shes being held. her congressman saying just in the last 24 hours they dont even know if shes even gotten consular access. rachel, what do you make of the situation?...

Brittney griner is under. theres no reason that we should necessarily believe anything that russia puts out over the air waves. i fear she might be held in solitaire which is a form of torture. im very concerned, as of course the u.s. government is now, that shes being denied consular access. i made that point as soon as we learned about this case more than a week ago. thats a big, red flag. and in that void of information and ability to connect and communicate and defend yourself, all sorts of ...

And candid message that we expect consular access to detained americans in line with russias international obligations, under the vienna convention and bilateral agreements on consular access to detained americans, including to those americans like brittney griner who are in pretrial detention. what i can tell you is that within the past couple of hours, an official from our embassy has been granted consular access to brittney griner. we were able to check on her condition, we will continue to w...

Edhi Foundation arranged transportation of the fishermen to Karachi

Six Pakistani fishermen repatriated to their homeland via the Attari-Wagah border crossing have reached their homes.

Pakistan's Mission in Washington has been coordinating with the US State Department to discuss legal options for repatriation of Pakistani nationals from Guantanamo Bay prison.

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