Three Americans that were detained in China have been released, according to a State Department official. NBC News' Gabe Gutierrez reports from the White House on the details of the release.
Three American citizens who had been detained in China were released, a State Department spokesperson said Wednesday. They are Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung. Li, 70, who is from Long Island, New York, was detained in 2016 and sentenced to 10 years in 2018 on espionage charges his family says are baseless.
governments to advocate for Mr. Li’s release and safe return to his family in Huntington, New York.” “Even when it felt like there was no hope, we never stopped believing that one day Mr. Li would return home,” he said in a statement Wednesday. “I look forward to welcoming Mr. Li back home to New York very soon.” For the families of all three freed Americans, “this Thanksgiving there is so much to be thankful for,” he added. The news was first reported by Politico.
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