{"id":25265,"date":"2024-11-28T13:49:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T08:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=25265"},"modified":"2024-11-28T13:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T08:04:36","slug":"us-says-china-releases-three-wrongfully-detained-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=25265","title":{"rendered":"US says China releases three &#8216;wrongfully detained&#8217; Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>WASHINGTON &#8211;<\/strong> China has freed three Americans considered wrongfully detained in a swap with the United States, US officials said Wednesday, meeting a key goal of outgoing President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The three Americans &#8212; Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung-were the last prisoners in China classified by the State Department as wrongfully detained, although activists and families have raised the cases of other US citizens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Soon they will return and be reunited with their families for the first time in many years,&#8221; a State Department spokesperson said on the eve of Thanksgiving, the American holiday associated with family reunions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Thanks to this administration&#8217;s efforts and diplomacy with the PRC, all of the wrongfully detained Americans in the PRC are home,&#8221; the spokesperson said, referring to the People&#8217;s Republic of China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A source close to the matter said that the three were being freed in a swap with Beijing for three Chinese nationals in US custody who were not identified.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Swidan was detained in late 2012 on a business trip to China on drug charges. His family and supporters say there was never any evidence he had drugs and that his driver and translator had blamed him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his early time in detention, Swidan was deprived of sleep and food and lost more than 100 pounds (45 kilograms), according to Dui Hua, a group that supports prisoners in China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In September, the United States secured the release of another American considered wrongfully detained &#8212; David Lin, a pastor who had been jailed since 2006.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">US officials later acknowledged that the release was part of a swap for a Chinese national-a quiet approach in sharp contrast to prisoner exchanges with Russia, in which Biden and President Vladimir Putin personally greeted returning citizens at the airport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Biden administration had hoped to secure prisoner releases in its remaining time in office, with Biden raising the cases during a final meeting this month with President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Peru. 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