When it comes to Americans being detained and held hostage in Russia, many have focused on the case of anti-American WNBA star Brittney Griner being swapped for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, while U.S. Marine Paul Whelan got left behind. But as ABC’s Good Morning America revealed on Thursday, there was another: Sarah Krivanek, who was arrested two months before Griner but was left to “rot” by the Biden administration and assaulted by a male inmate while imprisoned.
Fill-in anchor Will Reeve noted his conversation with Krivanek was “her first national television interview” and she would detail “her saga of being entangled in the Russian legal system, the harsh conditions at the penal colony where she says she was assaulted by a male inmate, and how she feels she's been abandoned.”
According to the report, Krivanek had been an English teacher in Russia for a few years when her male roommate attacked her and she stabbed him in self-defense. “The next month after visiting the U.S. Embassy, a diplomatic official arranged for the 46-year-old to fly back to the U.S. But she was taken into custody at the Moscow airport prior to boarding,” Reeve reported.
On February 11, 2022, she was sentenced to 15 months in a Russian penal colony. Griner was arrested just six days later.
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