AUSTIN U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement on the announcement that Mark Swidan, a Houston ...

Swidan was arrested and imprisoned in 2012 in China on allegations of drug trafficking and sentenced to death. Texans in ...

Texas lawmakers welcomed news that China is releasing Houston businessman Mark Swidan, who had been imprisoned since 2012, as ...

A Houston man will return home this week after being detained in China for over a decade. Mark Swidan from Houston was ...

Three Americans who the State Department said were wrongfully detained in China for years are on their way back to the U.S.

The three are Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung, all of whom had been designated by the U.S. government as wrongfully ...

Three American citizens who had been detained in China were released, a State Department spokesperson said Wednesday. They ...

A Houston man sentenced to death in a Chinese prison is set to be released after 12 years, the White House said Wednesday.

Three Americans held for years in Chinese prisons are coming home – including a Texas man. Wednesday, the White House ...

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, normally a Biden administration critic, praised the administration’s work to secure the release of ...

China is releasing three Americans who were "wrongfully detained," a National Security Council spokesperson says.

Mark Swidan, Kai Li, and John Leung have been released from detention, a spokesperson for the National Security Council said.