三名被中国关押的美国公民获释：白宫称被错误拘押者已全部回家
2024年11月27日，美国白宫国家安全委员会在华盛顿宣布，在中国被关押的三名美国公民 Mark Swidan、Kai Li 与 John Leung 已获释。国家安全委员会发言人表示：「我们高兴地宣布，Mark Swidan、Kai Li 和 John Leung 已结束在中华人民共和国的关押获释。他们很快就将返回美国，与家人团聚——这是他们多年来第一次团聚。得益于本届政府与中方的努力与外交，在中国被错误拘押的美国人现已全部回家。」
三人均被美国政府认定为「被错误拘押」。得克萨斯州商人 Mark Swidan 2012年11月在中国出差期间被捕，被控毒品相关罪名，2019年被判处死刑、缓期执行；他已被关押约12年。美籍华人商人 Kai Li 2016年9月在上海浦东机场落地时被带走，被控间谍与窃取国家秘密罪名，获刑10年，关押于上海青浦监狱，其家人一直否认相关指控。John Leung 2021年4月被拘留，2023年以间谍罪名被判处无期徒刑，获释时79岁。
据白宫官员介绍，总统拜登本月在秘鲁出席亚太经合组织会议期间与中国国家主席习近平会面时，曾当面推动三人获释。三人获释同日，美国国务院将对中国的旅行提醒由第三级「重新考虑旅行」下调至第二级「提高警惕」。
中国外交部发言人次日表示，美方已将四人送回中国，其中包括三名被中方指称因政治目的被美方错误拘押的中国公民，以及一名被中方通缉、滞留美国的人员；中方未公布四人姓名。美方未确认换囚安排的具体细节。
（来源：白宫）
Three Americans Detained in China Released: White House Says All Wrongfully Detained Americans in China Are Home
On November 27, 2024, the White House National Security Council announced in Washington that three American citizens held in China — Mark Swidan, Kai Li, and John Leung — had been released. A National Security Council spokesperson said: "We are pleased to announce the release of Mark Swidan, Kai Li, and John Leung from detention in the People's Republic of China. Soon they will return and be reunited with their families for the first time in many years. Thanks to this Administration's efforts and diplomacy with the PRC, all of the wrongfully detained Americans in the PRC are home."
All three had been designated by the U.S. government as wrongfully detained. Mark Swidan, a Texas businessman, was arrested during a business trip to China in November 2012 on drug-related charges and in 2019 was sentenced to death with a reprieve; he had been held for about 12 years. Kai Li, a Chinese American businessman, was taken away on landing at Shanghai Pudong Airport in September 2016, was convicted of espionage and stealing state secrets, and was serving a 10-year sentence at Shanghai's Qingpu Prison; his family has consistently denied the charges. John Leung was detained in April 2021 and in 2023 was sentenced to life in prison on espionage charges; he was 79 at the time of his release.
According to White House officials, President Biden pressed for the men's release when he met Chinese President Xi Jinping during the APEC meetings in Peru earlier that month. On the same day the three were released, the U.S. Department of State lowered its travel advisory for China from Level 3, Reconsider Travel, to Level 2, Exercise Increased Caution.
China's foreign ministry said the following day that the United States had returned four people to China, including three Chinese citizens Beijing said had been wrongfully detained by the U.S. for political purposes and one person wanted by China who had been living in the United States; Beijing did not name the four. The U.S. side did not confirm details of any exchange arrangement.
(Source: The White House)
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