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This list encompasses Americans wrongfully imprisoned or detained abroad by states and terrorist organizations of both citizens of the United States and legal permanent residents. It consists of individuals who have been wrongfully detained through various channels, including criminal conviction, hostage diplomacy , and kidnapping .
People of American nationality imprisoned or detained by an authority other than the United States, a U.S. agency, or a U.S. state. ... American prisoners of war ...
The U.S. government's top hostage negotiator defended prisoner swaps that free Americans wrongfully detained by foreign countries in exchange for the release of convicted criminals, denying on ...
[25] [26] This incarceration rate was similar to the average incarceration levels in the Soviet Union during the existence of the infamous Gulag system, when the Soviet Union's population reached 168 million, and 1.2 to 1.5 million people were in the Gulag prison camps and colonies (i.e. about 714 to 892 imprisoned per 100,000 USSR residents ...
Five Americans who were released after being wrongfully imprisoned in Iran for years made an emotional return to U.S. soil on Tuesday.. A plane carrying the five Americans and two of their ...
Five Americans wrongfully imprisoned in Iran for years have been freed as part of a U.S.-Iran prisoner exchange that gives Tehran access to $6 billion in previously frozen oil revenues.
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