Brittney Griner’s return brought a well-known case to its end, but she was just one of at least 60 Americans currently held hostage or wrongfully detained in 18 different countries, according to the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation.
Brittney Griner, her trademark dreadlocks conspicuously shorn, towered above the Russians who escorted her across the executive airport in Abu Dhabi for a prisoner swap. The star six-foot-nine athlete is a center for the Phoenix Mercury, a seven-time W.N.B.A. all-star, and a two-time Olympic gold medallist for Team U.S.A.
The trade followed months of “painstaking and intense” negotiations, President Biden said, in announcing Griner’s release. Washington explored “all sorts of alternatives,” including freedom for Paul Whelan, a former marine imprisoned for four years on espionage charges, according to a senior Administration official. Intense diplomacy, which involved leaders of other countries and private back channels, was deadlocked until earlier this week, when Russia made clear that it would not free Whelan.
Griner’s return brought a well-known case to its end, but she was just one of at least sixty Americans currently held hostage or wrongfully detained in eighteen different countries, according to the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation. During the past decade, the average number of Americans detained abroad hasby almost six hundred per cent, the Foley Foundation reported. The length of time hostages are held has increased by sixty per cent. Nearly half of the U.S.
This week, Biden claimed that dozens of Americans have been released since he took office nearly two years ago, but a State Department spokesperson could only specify releases from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Haiti, Venezuela, and the region of West Africa. Last year, the U.S. joined a fifty-eight-nation initiative launched by Canada to impose sanctions and other punitive measures to deter hostage-taking. The families of captives say the effort lacks teeth.
Hostages have been used as human bargaining chips at least as far back as the Book of Genesis, which recounts the abduction of Lot, Abraham’s nephew, by four Mesopotamian kings. The word itself—linked to the old French “,” roughly meaning a lodger held by a landlord for security—dates back at least to the thirteenth century.
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