“I just spoke to Brittney Griner. She’s safe, she’s on the plane, she’s going home. »
US President Joe Biden announced on Twitter this Thursday, December 8, the release of Brittney Griner, a world-famous openly lesbian basketball player, who had been imprisoned since last February in Russia.
Ten months of confinement and a prisoner exchange later
Because he had medical cannabis oil in his luggage to relieve chronic pain, she was arrested on February 17, 2022, imprisoned and brought to justice for drug possession and trafficking. Last August, the Russian judiciary sentenced her to nine and a half years in prison. Brittney Griner had recently been sent to a penal colony and there was concern about her deteriorating prison conditions.
It was a prisoner exchange that allowed for his release. The United States thus handed over the arms dealer Viktor Bout, who inspired the protagonist played by Nicolas Cage in the film Warlord. The exchange took place in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
This is an undeniable relief for all of Brittney Griner’s relatives and supporters, mobilized against this highly political court decision, starting with his wife Cherelle Griner who has been fighting tirelessly for months.
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