Brittney Griner is asking her fans to send love and support to Paul Whelan, the former U.S. Marine who is serving a 16-year sentence in Russia.
... by sending encouraging letters to the former U.S. Marine.
BG emphasized how much messages helped her throughout the past 10 months she was behind bars in Russia ... saying in an Instagram post it was one of the few gestures that kept her hope alive. "Your letters were also bigger than uplifting me," the WNBA champ said."They showed me the power of collective hands. Together, we can do hard things. I'm living proof of that."
"My family is whole and now, thanks to you, we are fortunate to get to spend the holidays together. However, there remain too many families with loved ones wrongfully detained." The 32-year-old specifically brings up the former Marine, who's serving a 16-year prison sentence in Russia for an espionage charge in 2018, saying she wants people to show the same amount of love for Whelan as he remains behind bars.
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