Brittney Griner's safe return should be celebrated across the globe, but let us not...
Brittney Griner of the Baylor Bears walks down the court against the Kentucky Wildcats on Nov. 13, 2012 at the Ferrell Center in Waco, Texas.With a deep exhale, Cherelle Griner unloaded nine months of unimaginable anguish. Her wife, Brittney Griner, the WNBA star detained in Russia on a drug conviction, would finally be coming home, just in time for the holidays.
When Griner was arrested at a Russian airport in February on allegations that she had hashish oil in her luggage, she immediately became the most high-profile face of the international population of wrongful detainees as well as a symbol for the plight of grossly underpaid women athletes. The Biden administration reclassified Griner's case in May, asserting she had been wrongfully detained, and kickstarting months of negotiations with the Russian government, no doubt complicated by the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, which the U.S. has condemned and buttressed Ukrainian defense efforts with billions in aid. When Griner was transferred to a penal colony last month, it only increased the pressure on those talks.
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