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Added on the 09/12/2022 12:43:25 - Copyright : France 24 EN
US President Joe Biden says that US women's basketball star Brittney Griner is "on her way home" after being freed from Russia in a prisoner swap. "She is safe. She is on a plane. She is on her way home," Biden says during remarks at the White House.
The group of enthusiasts have been given rare access to the tarmac at Adelaide Airport.
Basketball star Brittney Griner landed in the United States on Friday after 10 months in Russian detention that ended with a prisoner swap with arms dealer Viktor Bout who flew home hours earlier to embrace his family on the airport tarmac in Moscow.
The United Arab Emirates president and Saudi crown prince claimed in a joint statement Thursday that they led mediation efforts that secured the release of US basketball star Brittney Griner from a Russian penal colony in a high profile prisoner swap deal.
After a prisoner swap in Abu Dhabi, US basketball player Brittney Griner is now back in home soil after being exchanged with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. Griner was arrested in February on charges of attempting to smuggle drugs into Russia.
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