Melanie Berry
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The Bring Our Families Home Campaign always finds ways to capture America’s attention to the plight of our hostages and wrongfully detained. None, we found, is better than art. Make sure to check the new mural coming up this May at Freedom Alley in Georgetown. Pictured here is the mural in Houston.
Why do so many of our loved ones have to go on hunger strikes just to be heard?
More than 11 years of physical and mental suffering for Mark Swidan simply because he is American.
President Biden, what would you do if your son were in Mark's position?
#BringThemHome
Isaac Campbell A sneak preview of the design:
It's a timeline designed to remind the viewer and President Biden just how long our loved ones have unjustly suffered.
Zack's family needs Secretary Antony Blinken and U.S. Special Presidential Envoy Roger D. Carstens to move on a wrongful designation via the Levinson Act.
A year ago, independent global human rights experts at the United Nations ruled Zack's detention arbitrary:
ohchr.org/sites/default/…
Yet our own Department of State remains silent.
“We are very concerned and afraid that Mark will end his life”
President Biden, this is why we say it’s a life and death matter. Mark and his mom Katherine need you to act NOW. Not just say words. #BringThemHome
cbsnews.com/news/mark-swid…
Majd Kamalmaz: Father, brother, son, husband and grandfather to 14 grandchildren.
Over 7 years away from his loved ones, wrongfully detained with no case, no trial, and no word from him.
Please bring him home President Biden.
Free Majd Kamalmaz
Emotional day today. For the first time, the Hostage & Wrongful Detainees Flag was flown over the Department of State. 2 years of work. This is only the 2nd flag in US history to be codified into law. With David Ewald #CannotConfirmNorDeny #BringThemHome #FunnyHowHistoryIsWritten
Today we honor the first annual National Hostage & Wrongful Detainees Day. We will not stop until each and every one of them are home. #BringThemHome
Thank you, Secretary Antony Blinken.
But we hope you will not just 'reaffirm your mission' but actually work closely with President Biden to #BringThemHome .
We've seen progress, but it's not enough for our loved ones, many of whom have suffered for years. (1/3)
I'm thrilled to announce my upcoming book 'In the Shadows: True Stories of High-Stakes Negotiations to Free Americans Captured Abroad' coming June 4th. Co-written by Ellis Henican, I'm looking forward to sharing these previously untold stories. Pre-order through the link in my bio.
Happy to see Kai Li’s son, Harrison Li, invited to the State of the Union on Thursday. Free Kai Li is an American citizen wrongfully detained in China since 2016. #freeKaiLi Bring Our Families Home Campaign James W. Foley Legacy Foundation #bringthemhome
Aggravating that President Biden has still never responded to our repeated and constant meeting requests.
Aggravating that we are left with no other choice but to keep traveling to DC in a long shot effort to get his attention.
But we can't and won't stop. Thank you, Bring Our Families Home Campaign
A month ago, we wrote to President Biden with our strongest letter yet asking for a meeting.
Yet again, no response.
So we return to the The White House on March 8 for National Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day.
Join us immediately after the panel by James W. Foley Legacy Foundation McCain Institute
Will President Biden acknowledge us and prioritize our loved ones the same way he has to others? Yet here we are AGAIN at the The White House.. another effort of this horrific journey to bring our loved ones home. 😔
Thank you James W. Foley Legacy Foundation and McCain Institute for hosting these events around the inaugural National Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day.
Several of our families will be speaking at the Mar 8 event in DC.
Register for the event today and hear them.
Seven years without a trace.
Yet President Biden stays silent and ignores the issue.
How much longer do the Kamalmaz’s need to wait?
#BringThemHome
“The last time I spoke to Jim was in 2012. He was in Syria, and I was between patients. I picked up the phone and told him that I was sorry but I couldn’t chat. He said: ‘That’s OK, Mom. I’ll call you on Thanksgiving.’ I never heard his voice again.” - DF
telegraph.co.uk/family/life/di…
Thank you, Diane M. Foley , for this account of the callousness of your experience with our government.
The tragedy of Jim's story serves as a painful reminder of what can happen when the government is 'hamstrung by bureaucracy.'
A must read for all those in the gov't ignoring us.