Mark Swidan has been languishing in a Chinese prison since 2012, when the Texas businessman was arrested and accused of drug trafficking. Harsh conditions have caused him to lose significant weight, and he has spoken to his mother only once since his arrest.
Yet those are far from the 48-year-old’s biggest problems: In 2019, a Chinese court sentenced him to death.
Harvest Prude is a former reporter at The Dispatch.
