WNBA star Brittney Griner was released from a Russian penal colony and is on her way home following a one-for-one prisoner swap with notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout
” was convicted in 2012 and sentenced to 25 years for conspiring to kill Americans. Griner, on the other hand, was arrested for a minor offense and had a U.S. medical prescription for cannabis. Paul Whelan, an ex-Marine convicted in Russia of spying“Sadly, for totally illegitimate reasons Russia is treating Paul’s case differently than Brittney’s,” Biden said. “While we have not yet succeeded in securing Paul’s release, we are not giving up. We will never give up.
“The Biden Administration made the right decision to bring Ms. Griner home, and to make the deal that was possible, rather than waiting for one that wasn’t going to happen,” Whelan’s brother, David,American has won her freedom. Just three weeks ago, when Griner was transferred to a Russian penal colony to serve her sentence, things looked bleak for her.
Griner, a gay Black woman, had spent a lifetime shedding such trauma. Friends have said she was in a good place with Cherelle—whom she married in 2019—before her arrest.—With reporting by Brian Bennett / Washington
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