Day 2043 - Paul Whelan - USA - August 1, 2024 - Final Family Statement

Paul is free.  Here is our family's final media statement:
https://ofaolain.com/whelan-family-final-statement/ (PDF) 

Paul was a Russian hostage for 2,043 days. Thank you for covering Paul's story and helping us share our messages and advocacy for his release over that time.  We hope you will give him some privacy as you have done with other released hostages.

This is now Paul's story to tell and I'm sure he will, in time, communicate how he wants to tell it. It is vital that he be given agency over his life again, something the Kremlin took away for so many years.

Every story has an ending and this is the end of the story of our family's advocacy for Paul.  We wish you all well.