Headline : Bringing American Hostages and Detainees Home

Read more from the original article on here at editorials.voa.gov.

---

No. of Paragraph 12

"The more countries who join us in applying pressure, the more we raise the cost on perpetrators, and the more we force them to think twice before detaining additional innocent people," said Secretary Blinken.

The United States remains committed to bringing all American hostages and wrongful detainees home.

At the recent inaugural U.S. Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day, Secretary of State Antony Blinken recounted how he carries a list with the name of every American who is held hostage or unjustly detained. “Over the past three years,” he noted, “I’ve been able to cross 46 names off that list.”

And yet, “dozens of our fellow citizens are held without cause by foreign governments, terrorist groups, and other non-state actors – without their rights and apart from their families,” said Secretary Blinken:

Read more from the original article on here at editorials.voa.gov.

Related Headlines : Bringing American Hostages and Detainees Home (in Google.com):

Hello, below you have a "Web" tab to read more content and an "Image" tab to get related pictures

Example : Trends, Country, News, Jobs, Scholarships, Investment, Business, Politics, Adverts, Fashion, Events, Technology and more.