Jonathan Wachtel

Jonathan Wachtel served as Director of Communications and Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. As a journalist he covered international conflicts for more than two decades for ABC, Fox, and Worldwide Television News.

US WNBA basketball superstar Brittney Griner sits inside a defendants' cage during a hearing at the Khimki Court in the town of Khimki outside Moscow on July 15, 2022. - Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and WNBA champion, was detained at Moscow airport in February on charges of carrying in her luggage vape cartridges with cannabis oil, which could carry a 10-year prison sentence.

Opinion

July 15, 2022

Russian prisoner Brittney Griner and the growing trend of hostage diplomacy

Basketball star Brittney Griner is world-famous but even she got caught in Russia's vicious game of hostage taking.