President Trump appeared during the Republican National Convention with 6 people who his administration helped free after they had been taken into custody in countries around the world.
With the help of Swiss officials, who have overseen U.S. interests in Tehran for four decades, White was released earlier this summer. He had been in captivity for 683 days.
Another person, Sam Goodwin, spent two months in custody in Syria after visiting that country without a visa. Lebanese officials"I think I speak for my former fellow hostages and detainees here when I say I am just as grateful as I have ever been for anything to be home safely,” Goodwin said to Trump at the White House.From left, former hostages Josh Holt, his wife Tammy Holt, and Pastor Bryan Nerran.
Brunson, who was charged with terrorism, was released on Oct. 12, 2018, after Trump said he had a"few conversations" with Erdogan.after an anti-gang police squad accused him of stockpiling grenades and an AK-47 assault rifle. Holt had gone to the country to marry a Venezuelan woman, Thamara Candelo, whom he'd met online, but authorities said they were keeping the weapons at her family's home.Holt was held in a Caracas prison for two years without a trial. Several U.S.
In India, Bryan Nerran, a pastor, was arrested last year after not declaring $40,000 in cash on his way to Nepal. He was freed in May.
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