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WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — The House unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday that calls on China to release Mark Swidan, a U.S. citizen who has been detained in the country since 2012.
The resolution cleared the chamber in a 418-0 vote.
Swidan traveled from Texas to China in 2012 to buy materials for his home which he was remodeling. However, he was arrested on accusations that he was trafficking and manufacturing methamphetamine.
U.S. leaders have said Swidan was not in China at the time of the alleged crime. The United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has said that Swidan was arbitrarily detained.
Swidan has been in a jail cell for over a decade living in awful conditions. He was convicted in 2012 and received a Read Entire Article
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