The Telegraph published this video item, entitled “US-Russia prisoner swap: basketball star Brittney Griner for Russian arms dealer ‘Merchant of death'” – below is their description.
Joe Biden celebrated basketball star Brittney Griner’s release on Thursday, but was criticised for handing a notorious arms dealer to Russia in return and failing to free another imprisoned American.
Griner, 32, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and LGBTQ icon, was arrested in Moscow on drug charges just days before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Customs officials at a Moscow airport said they found vape canisters with cannabis oil in her luggage.
The WNBA star said she had permission from a US doctor to use medicinal cannabis for her injuries, but she was convicted of drug smuggling and sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony in what the US called a “show trial”.
Read full article here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/12/08/brittney-griner-released-russia-prisoner-swap-viktor-bout/
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