American lawmakers call on China to release Mark Swidan, a Houston man who was wrongfully detained in the country in 2012 for drug trafficking.
"Mark is my baby, my best friend," said Mark’s mother, Katherine Swidan. "We just want to get Mark home so we can take care of him."CHINA RELATED NEWS:"This resolution not only calls for Mark's immediate release, it also condemns China for withholding from Mark access to his family and to proper medical care," said Senator Cruz.
"I was on the phone with him and I heard banging," said Katherine. "He said, ‘Hold on mom there’s someone at the door’. It was Chinese police. They said they wanted to check his phone. I was just a crazy person trying to find him." EDITORS NOTE: This video is from a previous story. The suspected Chinese spy balloon that has floated over the United States for the past several days has been shut down on Saturday afternoon by U.S. fighter jets over the Atlantic ocean. FOX's Kevin Uretsky reports on the new developments.
"The world can see that the Chinese Communist Party is trying to use hostages and hostage-taking as a tool of statecraft," said Sen. Cruz. "The Chinese Communist Party says they want to be taken seriously as a great power and a great nation and they say they want to be respected on the global stage. But their treatment of Mark is not how great nations and great powers behave their treatment of Mark is how third world despots act.
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