Griner's freedom will be sold off by the Kremlin as hostage diplomacy keeps paying off. 🔴 While trading hostages for potentially dangerous criminals could leave a sour taste in the mouth, there is little else governments can do to bring citizens home.
has been described as a textbook example of hostage diplomacy, a phenomenon that has become increasingly common – and successful – for rogue regimes in the past decade.
“What we have seen over the last five to 10 years is the rise of hostage diplomacy. They use their judicial services as a smokescreen to disguise what I would call state hostage-taking.”With today’s sentencing, Russia continues its wrongful detention of Brittney Griner. She should be released immediately.
America’s fears that Russia may use Griner as a bargaining tool were realised when she was jailed for nine years over a drug charge on Thursday, sparking outrage among US politicians. She said over the course of 15 years working with the charities, cases of state hostage-taking “were growing and growing” and most people would never hear about them.
One such example is Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Iranian-British dual citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who campaigned tirelessly for his wife’s freedom after she was detained in Iran in 2016.
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