There is no strict doctrine on swapping the incarcerated. Countries decide on a case-by-case basis whether to exchange or release prisoners
4th a Russian court sentenced Brittney Griner, an American basketball player, to nine years in prison. Ms Griner was arrested at a Moscow airport in February after officials found cannabis oil in her luggage. The two-time Olympic gold medallist had pleaded guilty to bringing the drug into the country, and she told the court she had made an “honest mistake”. America maintains she has been wrongfully detained. She appears to be a pawn in the rivalry between the two countries.
Democracies often face greater public pressure to retrieve their citizens, particularly when they are unjustly convicted. Authoritarian regimes can use exchanges as a propaganda coup or to achieve political ends without compunction. The case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian charity worker who was arrested in Iran in 2016 on false espionage charges and imprisoned for six years, captured the British imagination.
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