Detained basketball star Brittney Griner asks Biden ‘not to forget about me’

In letter passed to White House, athlete says she fears she may be stuck in Russian prison for ever

The imprisoned basketball star Brittney Griner has made an appeal to Joe Biden in a letter passed to the White House through her representatives, saying she fears she may never return home and asking that he not forget about me and the other American detainees".

Griner's agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas said the letter was delivered on Monday. Most of the letter's contents remain private, though Griner's representatives shared a few lines from the handwritten note.