Brittney Griner: months in captivity end on UAE tarmac
WASHINGTON: Over the past 48 hours US. basketball star Brittney Griner traveled from custody in a penal colony in Russia to Moscow, to an airport in the United Arab Emirates, US officials say.
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'She is coming home': WNBA players cheer Griner's release
Brittney Griner's Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team mates and fellow athletes cheered her release from Russian custody on Thursday, months after she was first detained in a Moscow airport.
US basketball player released in swap for 'Merchant of Death'
US basketball player Brittney Griner has been released by Russia in a prisoner swap.
US basketball star Brittney Griner released from Russian custody in prisoner swap: US official
WASHINGTON: American basketball star Brittney Griner has been released in a prisoner swap with Russia and is now in United States custody, a US official said on Thursday (Dec 8).
Brittney Griner being freed from Russia in prisoner exchange, U.S. says
Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, with the U.S. releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, American officials said.
After whirlwind stretch from Siberia to Australia, Canada's Kayla Alexander gets back to basics
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Basketball star Griner begins sentence in remote Russian prison: Lawyers
MOSCOW: Basketball star Brittney Griner, whose plight has generated widespread anger in the United States, has been sent to a remote Russian penal colony, her lawyers said on Thursday (Nov 17).
Russian court rejects Griner appeal against 9-year sentence
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Tuesday upheld the nine-year prison sentence handed to American basketball star Brittney Griner for drug possession, rejecting her appeal.