GRINER RELEASED - President Joe Biden confirmed WNBA star Brittney Griner has been released from Russian custody as part of a prisoner swap.
President Joe Biden confirmed WNBA star Brittney Griner has been released from Russian custody as part of a prisoner swap.CBS reported the deal was in exchange for Viktor Bout, an international arms dealer.The U.S. said for months it had been working on her release.
"As I think is well known, we put a significant proposal on the table some months ago now, and since then, we’ve had other conversations, other engagements, and we are constantly looking at how we can bring Americans who in one way or another are being arbitrarily detained, whether it’s in Russia or anywhere else, to get them home," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said earlier this week.
While playing in Russia, Griner was arrested in February for possessing hash oil. She was later sentenced to nine years to prison.The Department of Justice accused Bout of conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons, including hundreds of surface-to-air missiles and over 20,000 AK-47s to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia
Bout was convicted on four criminal counts: conspiring to kill U.S. nationals; conspiring to kill U.S. officers and employees; conspiring to acquire and export anti-aircraft missiles; and conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
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