WASHINGTON — After the White House secured the release of WNBA star and Houston native Brittney Griner from Russian prison in early December — the U.S.’s...
The family of Houston native Austin Tice, who was last seen in Damascus, have urged the Biden administration security team to engage with the Syrian government.
A banner calling for the release of Austin Tice, the only American journalist held captive in Syria, is displayed at the Newseum in Washington, DC on November 2, 2016.WASHINGTON — After the White House secured the release of WNBA star and Houston native Brittney Griner from Russian prison in early December — the U.S.’s second prisoner swap of the year with Russia — it committed to bringing home all other Americans wrongfully detained abroad.
Now that the Biden administration has shown it is willing to engineer deals to secure the safe return of U.S. nationals, relatives of and advocates for other Texans currently detained or held hostage abroad, including journalist Austin Tice andGriner was not the only American — or even the only Texan, at one point — Russia has wrongfully detained,for cases in which the circumstances of the detainee’s detention suggest they were arrested on discriminatory or arbitrary grounds.
Though the State Department has not released an official tally of how many Americans are being unjustly held by foreign governments, researchers at a wrongful detainee advocacy organization, the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation,“Over the last 10 years we’ve seen a 175 percent increase in incidents of Americans being wrongfully detained,” Cynthia T. Loertscher, the director of research, hostage advocacy, and government affairs for the Foley Foundation, told The New York Times.
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