The basketball player was arrested in February at a Moscow airport with cannabis oil and sentenced to nine years in prison.
Russia and the United States announced a successful prisoner exchange between two countries in Abu Dhabi Airport. the basketball player Brittney Griner He is already traveling to his country, as announced by the president joe biden while Victor Bout was returned to the authorities russian.
The news is buzzing in American basketball, the star of phoenix mercury and the team returned home after almost a year in prison in Russia.
grinned32, was arrested for entering a Russia in February 2022 after airport authorities found electronic vaporization cartridges with less than a gram of cannabis oil in his possession. It was made available to justice in the middle of another high point in the relationship Washington-Moscow after Russian military intervention in Ukraine. That was in July found guilty of drug trafficking and sentenced to nine years in prison, the maximum sentence for the crime described in the case is ten years. Bilateral tension has made it impossible for justice to be claimed by USA and the possibility of an exchange of prisoners was presented as the only way. The situation worsened a few weeks before he was transferred to a penal unit in Mordovia.
The administration of Joe Biden should be delivered to Russia to the arms dealer Victor Boutlabeled the merchant of death.
“If this happens, it will certainly be a positive sign that all is not lost in the US-Russian relationship. Perhaps this sign will be appropriate now, too, if an agreement can be reached.” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov said.
“On December 8, 2022, at the Abu Dhabi airport, the exchange procedure of Russian citizen Viktor Bout for US citizen Brittney Griner, who is serving sentences in US and Russian prisons, was successfully completed. respectively.”, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Telegram.
“I talked to Brittney Griner a little while ago. You’re safe. She’s on a plane. She’s on her way home.”tweeted the US president Joe Biden.
Finally, the diplomatic negotiations ended, reaching a high level of tension and exposure where Russia was not entirely comfortable and asked for seriousness and less.media circusto the US counterpart.
The last exchange of prisoners between Russia and the US took place in April, when the student was exchanged and former Texas Marine Trevor Reed, by Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko.
Joe Biden posted on the official Twitter account @POTUS confirmation of Griner’s exit
The Brittney Griner case since her arrest
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Source: Tycsports
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