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Feb 7, 2023 · After a 10-month detainment in Russia and getting sentenced to nine years in prison on drug charges, Brittney Griner was allowed to return to the United States when the Joe Biden administration...
Dec 8, 2022 · WNBA star Brittney Griner was released this week in a prisoner exchange with Russia, where she has been detained since Feb. 17 and was sentenced to nine years in Russia prison after she was found guilty of drug charges. The U.S. classified Griner as "wrongfully detained" in May and has been working for months to secure her freedom.
Apr 27, 2023 · Brittney Griner was freed in a U.S.-Russia prisoner exchange in December. We've tracked her ordeal back to the basketball court.
May 2, 2024 · WNBA star Brittney Griner says she thought about killing herself during her first few weeks in a Russian jail after her 2022 arrest on drug-related charges. Griner spoke for the first time about her monthslong detention in Russia during an hourlong interview that aired Wednesday night on ABC.
Dec 8, 2022 · Brittney Griner, the American WNBA superstar detained in Russia—where she played hoops in the WNBA off-season—since February and sentenced in August to nine years in a Russian penal colony for...
Dec 10, 2022 · Griner, a 32-year-old star center for the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury, was detained at a Russian airport in February and later pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the discovery of cannabis-derived...
Dec 8, 2022 · WNBA star Brittney Griner was freed Thursday after the Biden administration negotiated her release from a Russian penal colony in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. Biden, in a press...
Jul 1, 2022 · O n Aug. 4, 31-year-old WNBA champion and Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia for more than five months, was sentenced to nine years in prison for charges of...
Aug 4, 2022 · WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia for over five months, was found guilty on drug charges in a Moscow-area court Thursday. She was then sentenced to nine years in prison.
Jul 8, 2022 · MOSCOW (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner pleaded guilty Thursday to drug possession charges on the second day of her trial in a Russian court in a case that could see her sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.
