'She's been kept from her family. From her wife. From her profession. From her friends,' RevDrBarber says of Brittney Griner, the U.S. Olympian and WNBA star jailed in Russia. 'It's time for her to come home.'
"She's been kept from her family. From her wife. From her profession. From her friends," the activist pastor said of the U.S. Olympian jailed in Russia."It's time for her to come home."Bishop William J. Barber II on Friday reiterated his support for Brittney Griner while calling on Russian and U.S. authorities to allow faith leaders to visit the jailed U.S. Olympian and Women's National Basketball Association superstar in Russia to help secure her release.
"We are asking the U.S. government and the U.S. and Russian embassies to allow faith leaders to travel to Russia as part of a humanitarian effort to gain her release." At a virtual press conference, Barber—who is president of Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival—said that he and other faith leaders are"willing to engage in a humanitarian visit" to Russia to visit Griner"if the Russian Embassy and the U.S. government would work out the particulars to allow that to happen."
Griner, a 31-year-old two-time Olympic gold medalist and eight-time All-Star center for the Phoenix Mercury, has been jailed for nearly five months following her arrest at Moscow's international airport for carrying vaporizer cartridges containing 0.7 grams of hashish oil.
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