Breaking: WNBA player Brittney Griner has been released from Russia in a prisoner exchange.
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00:00After months of being unjustly detained in Russia, held under intolerable circumstances,
00:05Brittany will soon be back in the arms of her loved ones and she should have been there all along.
00:11Greiner had been detained since February 2022 after she was arrested and charged with drug
00:15smuggling over cannabis oil found in her luggage. Greiner was exchanged for U.S. prisoner Russian
00:21Victor Boot, a convicted arms dealer. The fact remains that she's lost months of her life,
00:26experienced the needless trauma, and she deserves space, privacy,
00:30and time with her loved ones to recover and heal from her time being wrongfully detained.