More than two months after WNBA superstar Brittney Griner was arrested at a Moscow airport and accused of having cannabis oil in her luggage, the U.S. State Department finally said on Tuesday said that she had been “wrongfully detained,” signaling a significant shift in how officials will work to get her home.
Griner had been traveling to Russia on a regular basis over the past seven years to play on a team there when she was arrested one week before the invasion of Ukraine.
