Jennifer Jett is the Asia Digital Editor for NBC News, based in Hong Kong.
HONG KONG — Nelson Wells Jr. has spent almost a decade imprisoned in China. In May 2014, the American traveled to the country from Japan, where he lived with his wife and three children, to seek medical treatment for a head injury he had sustained in a traffic accident. He was arrested and accused of trying to smuggle drugs out of the country as he was departing China from the city of Chongqing.
star Brittney Griner was freed in exchange for an arms dealer in December 2022, almost a year after she was arrested in Russia on drug charges that she said were the result of an “honest mistake” in bringing cannabis oil into the country. “We managed to get people from them, but it seems like we cannot get anybody from China,” Wells Sr. said. There is currently little judicial cooperation between the U.S. and China, but the transfer of prisoners such as Wells “is an area that the U.S.
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