{"id":1926970,"date":"2023-05-08T19:57:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T23:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mel-gibson-calls-for-release-of-american-mark-swidan-jailed-in-china-for-a-decade\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T19:59:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T23:59:17","slug":"mel-gibson-calls-for-release-of-american-mark-swidan-jailed-in-china-for-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mel-gibson-calls-for-release-of-american-mark-swidan-jailed-in-china-for-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Gibson urges China to free Mark Swidan, an American imprisoned for 10 years."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmel-gibson-calls-for-release-of-american-mark-swidan-jailed-in-china-for-a-decade%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1926970&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Actor Mel Gibson Raises Awareness of American Citizen\u2019s Plight in China<\/h2>\n<h3>Oscar-winning director Mel Gibson is calling for action to help American citizen Mark Swidan, who has been imprisoned in China since 2012 and placed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawyers-for-woman-on-death-row-request-president-trump-grant-clemency-a-week-before-execution\/\" title=\"Lawyers for woman on death row request President Trump grant clemency a week before execution\">death row<\/a> for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">drug charge<\/a> that was never proven by the Communist country\u2019s prosecutors.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cMark Swidan has been wrongfully and unlawfully imprisoned by the Chinese for almost 11 years,\u201d the Passion of the Christ director told News Nation last week. \u201cHe faces a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jon-ossoff-aoc-stick-up-for-white-supremacist-murderer-dylann-roof\/\" title=\"Jon Ossoff, AOC Stick Up for White Supremacist Murderer Dylann Roof\">death sentence<\/a>. He\u2019s a man of great faith, an American patriot, and he refuses during his captivity to renounce either his faith or his country,\u201d Gibson added.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriot star urged Americans to speak out and contact their representatives in Washington to advocate for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/better-than-expected-u-s-economy-added-638000-jobs-in-october-unemployment-dropped-to-6-9\/\" title=\"Better Than Expected: U.S. Economy Added 638,000 Jobs in October, Unemployment Dropped to 6.9%\">federal government<\/a> to call for Swidan\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The U.S. State Department has ruled that Swidan has been \u201cwrongfully detained\u201d and says it will \u201ccontinue to press for his immediate release.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution calling for the Texas man\u2019s release this week.<\/li>\n<li>The United Nations has also determined that Swidan was arrested and prosecuted in violation of international law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite these efforts, Swidan\u2019s wife says few people in a position to help her husband are interested in pushing for his release. \u201cYou know, it\u2019s like Mark doesn\u2019t exist,\u201d Katherine Swidan said. \u201cI\u2019ve contacted so many people, and he\u2019s never No. 1.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swidan\u2019s health is failing, and he has allegedly lost his teeth, lost at least 100 pounds, and has tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mel-gibson-calls-for-release-of-american-mark-swidan-jailed-in-china-for-a-decade\/\" title=\"Mel Gibson urges China to free Mark Swidan, an American imprisoned for 10 years.\">commit suicide multiple times<\/a>. Chinese authorities have also denied visits by U.S. consular officers to the Jiangmen prison where Swidan is being held to review his condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ask for all of you to raise your voices and demand Mark\u2019s release and to pray that he\u2019s returned to his family,\u201d Gibson concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Let us all join Mel Gibson in advocating for Mark Swidan\u2019s release and for justice to be served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor and Oscar-winning director Mel Gibson is raising awareness of American citizen Mark Swidan\u2019s plight \u2014 as he has been imprisoned in China since 2012 and placed on death row for a drug charge that was clearly never proven by the Communist country\u2019s prosecutors. \u201cMark Swidan has been wrongfully and unlawfully imprisoned by the Chinese<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1926971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4123,4501,13801,7143,5200,12024,25151,4399,4346],"class_list":["post-1926970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-american","tag-china","tag-gibson","tag-imprisoned","tag-mark","tag-mel","tag-swidan","tag-urges","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}