has called for attention to turn to other Americans being 'wrongly detained' around the world on the one-year anniversary of her release from a Russian prison.Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in basketball, was found with a vape cartridge containing less than a gram of hash oil while entering Russia to play for UMMC Ekaterinburg during the WNBA offseason, which she had done every year since 2014 at that point.After being sentenced to nine years in prison on drug smuggling charges, despite being designated as wrongfully detained by the United States government, the Phoenix Mercury star also lost an appeal for a lesser sentence and was eventually transferred to Russian Penal colony 270 miles southeast of .
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