Four months after her release from Russian prison, WNBA star Brittney Griner and her wife, Cherelle, called on President Joe Biden to push for the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.
Gershkovich, who had been reporting in Russia for six years and written extensively about the country's invasion of Ukraine, was arrested on espionage charges last week and faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years.
That sentence would be served in the same notoriously harsh prison system that held Griner until December, when the Biden administration agreed to a prisoner exchange deal with Russia that freed convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout.