Brittney Yevette Griner is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women’s National Basketball Association. She played college basketball for the Baylor Lady Bears in Waco, Texas. She is the only NCAA basketball player to both score 2,000 points and block 500 shots.
Brittney Griner: Arrest| What happened to| What did do| Missing
Arrest:
U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed on Wednesday that Reed was heading back to the U.S., though he’s likely to go to a hospital after his ordeal.
The U.S. negotiated a trade for Reed and a Russian national who had been convicted in the U.S. on drug trafficking conspiracy charges.
What happened to:
In a tweet, Biden said that “Trevor’s safe return is a testament to the priority we place on bringing home Americans held hostage and wrongfully detained abroad.” In other remarks.
The release of Trevor Reed, a former U.S. Marine who had been detained in Russia for three years, is strengthening calls on social media that highlight Moscow’s imprisonment of women’s basketball star Brittney Griner, who has been held since February., he said that the U.S. “won’t stop” until other detained Americans are returned home.
What did do:
The news of Griner’s arrest was first made known on March 5, when the Russian Federal Customs Service said it had detained an American basketball player at Sheremetyevo airport.
The agency claims it found vape cartridges with hash oil in the player’s luggage. Later reports identified Griner, who plays for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, as the player in question.
That day, Griner’s wife Cherelle asked for privacy and called the situation “one of the weakest moments of my life.”
Missing:
Since then, there has been little public update on Griner’s whereabouts, though the New York Times quoted a source who said she was “OK.”
U.S. Representative Colin Allred on March 10 told CNN that he was working to “make sure that her rights are respected and that we are able to get access to her, and that she can get through the process and get home as quickly as possible.”
Representative Cori Bush, tennis icon Billie Jean King, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have all tweeted in support of Griner.
