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Beijing: China has released from jail David Lin, an American pastor, who had been sentenced to a life term in 2006. “We welcome David Lin’s release from prison in the People’s Republic of China. He has returned to the United States and now gets to see his family for the first time in nearly 20 years,” said a State Department spokesperson as cited by Al Jazeera.
Washington designated him wrongfully detained and had been urging Beijing to free him for years.
Politico reported that Lin’s daughter confirmed to the outlet that the State Department had notified her that Chinese authorities had released her father from prison and that he would be touching down in San Antonio, Texas on Sunday. “No words can express the joy we have — we have a lot of time to make up for,” she told Politico.
Lin’s release comes just weeks after National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi in Beijing.
Meanwhile, US Representative Chris Smith and Senator Jeff Merkley, the Chair and Co-chair respectively of the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), are set to hold a hearing on securing the freedom of unjustly detained Americans in China on September 18.
