Brittney Griner is free. The WNBA star had been languishing in a Russian prison after being jailed and later convicted on drug charges following an incident at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport back in early March.
But for months, President Joe Biden‘s office had been working behind the scenes to try to get her back home.
And on Thursday, they accomplished it. Related: FedEx Driver Arrested After Kidnapping & Murdering Girl On Delivery Route Early this morning, the Biden administration announced they negotiated Griner’s release from prison.
She had been serving a nine-year sentence in a penal colony east of Moscow following her arrest earlier this year. But now, her freedom has been exchanged for that of convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who was in the 11th year of a 25-year prison sentence in the United States.
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