WASHINGTON — Houston-resident Mark Swidan will be released from over a decade in Chinese detention as part of prisoner swap, according to several members of Texas’ congressional delegation.

The commutations were separate from the over 1,000 people whose sentences the U.S. president commuted on Dec. 12, 2024.

Congressman Michael Cloud (TX-27) met with Mark Swidan, a Texas native wrongfully detained in China for over 11 years, to deliver the resolution passed by the House in 2023 advocating for Swidan ...

Houstonian Mark Swidan is among three U.S. residents who government officials said were wrongfully detained in China. Kai Li and John Leung will also be released in the swap. In 2012, Swidan was ...

Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung were all released and were designated by the U.S. government as wrongfully detained. Three American citizens imprisoned for years by China have been released and ...

They are Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung. Li, 62, 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.

Their releases were part of a prisoner swap that returned three wrongfully detained Americans from Chinese custody: Mark Swidan, Kai Li, and John Leung. The three Americans returned to the U.S ...

Mark Swidan, Kai Li, and John Leung have been released, a spokesperson for the National Security Council said, and they will soon "return and be reunited with their families for the first time in ...

Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung were all designated by the U.S. government as wrongfully detained. Swidan, a Houston resident, was wrongfully detained in China for more than 10 years ...

The State Department announced the release of Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung. A U.S. government official told NBC News the three were exchanged for Chinese detainees. IE 11 is not supported.