Mark Swidan is an American designer, artist, photographer and businessman from Houston, Texas. He was detained in China from 2012 to 2024. In 2019, Swidan was charged with drug trafficking in China and sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve by a court in Guangdong. on April 14, 2023, the Guangdong court upheld the sentence. The U.S. government and the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention considered Swidan wrongfully detained. He was released on November 27, 2024, as part of a prisoner swap with China.
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