US President Joe Biden said Thursday that US women's basketball star Brittney Griner is 'on her way home' after being freed from Russia in a prisoner swap.
US basketball player Brittney Griner stands inside a defendants' cage during the reading of the court's verdict in Khimki outside Moscow, Russia August 4, 2022. REUTERS/ Evgenia Novozhenina/ Pool
WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden said Thursday that American women's basketball star Brittney Griner is "on her way home" after Moscow reported she had been exchanged in a prisoner swap for Russian arms dealer Victor Bout. The US athlete, who was being held in a remote Russian penal colony, was arrested at a Moscow airport in February and handed nine years in prison in August for possessing vape cartridges with a small quantity of cannabis oil. SheBiden, who was due shortly to speak to the nation from the White House, tweeted that "Moments ago I spoke to Brittney Griner."
"She is safe. She is on a plane. She is on her way home," Biden said in the tweet, which included pictures of himself in the Oval Office with Griner's wife Cherelle Griner.She is on her way home.
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