WNBA star Brittney Griner is a political prisoner in Russia

The Real News Podcast · Mar 29, 2022 · 19m

As the Russian military invasion of Ukraine enters its second month and diplomatic relations between the US and Russia are at their most strained point in decades, seven-time WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner is being held as a political prisoner by Russian authorities. As famed sports analyst and journalist Dave Zirin recently wrote for MSNBC News, “While Griner’s detention has received a measure of media attention, the fact that she was in Russia in the first place demands its own examination... Like most professional women’s players, who make a microcosmic fraction of what the men make in the…