Brittney Griner urges Joe Biden to bring home reporter accused of spying in Russia

Brittney Griner and her wife Cherelle said on Instagram that ‘our hearts are filled with great concern’ for Evan Gershkovich, the journalist arrested by Russia’s FSB security service last week

U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, who was freed from a Russian penal colony in a prisoner exchange last year, has urged the Biden administration to keep using “every tool possible” to win the release of a U.S. reporter accused of spying in Russia.

The Kremlin says Gershkovich was using journalism as a cover for spying activity – something his newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, has vehemently denied. The Griners said they were grateful for Biden’s “deep commitment to rescue Americans.” They cited the cases of aid worker Jeff Woodke, freed last month after being kidnapped for more than six years in West Africa, and Paul Rusesabagina, a permanent U.S. resident who returned home last week after being released from prison in Rwanda.

Brittney Griner, a WNBA star and double Olympic gold medalist who played for a Russian team in the off-season, was arrested at a Moscow airport one week before Russia invaded Ukraine last year.

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