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 were wrongfully detained in China are on their way back to U.S. soil as part of a prisoner swap, a senior ...

Mark Swidan had been wrongfully detained in China since 2012, and his family fought to one day bring him home. Now, the State ...

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

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

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

Actor Mel Gibson applauded U.S. officials on Wednesday for securing the release of American Mark Swidan, who has been ...

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

Houston native Mark Swidan had been jailed overseas for the past 12 years. He faced the death penalty for drug charges, but ...