US media: The United States releases a Chinese in exchange for a priest for 18 years i

(Washington Comprehensive News) The US media reported that the US government in September this year on the release of a Chinese citizen in prison in exchange for the freedom of the American pastor Lin David, who was detained in China for 18 years.

Politico, a U.S. political news website, quoted people familiar with the matter and revealed the above news.This may be the first time in the modern history of the United States to release a Chinese in exchange for a American citizen.

David Lin, 68, is a Chinese American. After immigrating to the United States, he obtained citizenship and frequently spread the gospel in China in the 1990s. He also tried to open a Christian training center in Beijing.

David Lin was arrested in 2006, and he was sentenced to a lifelong prison for charging contract fraud.The US State Department found that he was one of the three Americans who had been "detained" by China, and it has been urged to release it for many years.On September 15 this year, the U.S. State Department announced that he had been released.

According to Reuters, a US State Department spokesman Miller Miller said in the inquiry on September 16: "Sometimes in diplomacy, the less you say."

Due to sensitive diplomatic negotiations, China and the United States have not been made public.Voice of America reports that people involved in people or Chinese students who were released on September 16th, Wu Xiaolei, who was released on September 16.

26 -year -old Wu Xiaolei was charged with tracking and threatening another Chinese female student who supported democracy. In January this year, it was established by the US Federal Jury "Network Tracking" and "Cross -State Communication Threat Information".The month was sentenced to nine months of imprisonment and three years of supervision and release.

Wu Xiaolei has served in prison since June 7. After the release of the sentence in mid -September, he has returned to China.The US Department of Justice's documents confirmed that US President Biden signed a pardon document on September 12 to reduce Wu Xiaolei's total sentence to discounting at the time of serving the sentence, saying that he was not fully served in the "national interest" in the United States.

Pardoning documents also show that the conditions for mining include Wu Xiaolei left the United States, no longer involved in US territory and territory, and no crimes against the United States or violating American law.