An American man has been sentenced to death in China over an alleged drug trafficking plot.
His death sentence comes after spending six years in a Chinese prison.
The sentence was passed down on Tuesday by Guangdong Province Jiangmen Intermediate People's Court. The court announced that Swidan, who they identified only as"Mark ," was handed a suspended death sentence, which usually evolves into life in prison. A U.S. State Department official confirmed the sentence to ABC News and said that U.S. consular officers"have been providing all appropriate consular services."
Katherine Swidan told KTRK that she is"still in shock" over the sentence of her son, who is now 44 years old.John Kamm, the executive director of the Dui Hua Foundation, a non-profit advocacy group based in San Francisco that works to improve treatment for detainees in China, told ABC News that he has worked on Swidan's case"for many years."
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