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Brittney Griner
Basketball star Brittney Griner, a center for the Phoenix Mercury, shown during a 2019 WNBA game.
Brittney Griner was released from Russian custody on December 8, 2022, as part of a prisoner exchange for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer who had been serving a 25-year sentence in a U.S. federal prison.12