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In the interview, Watanabe acknowledged beating and kicking prisoners, but was unrepentant, saying, "I treated the prisoners strictly as enemies of Japan." Zamperini attempted to meet with his chief and most brutal tormentor, but Watanabe, who had evaded prosecution, refused to see him. Watanabe died on April 1, 2003, at 85 years old. [2]
The Dec. 9, 2022, exchange of the WNBA star for a Russian arms trader As a historic prisoner exchange unfolds, a look back at other famous East-West swaps Skip to main content
President Joe Biden on Thursday celebrated an extraordinary prisoner exchange that freed several Americans wrongfully detained in Russia, calling it a "feat of diplomacy and friendship" in remarks ...
The prisoner exchange, which also freed Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist, and Vladimir Kara-Murza, a legal permanent U.S. resident, was the product of months of intense diplomacy ...
Viktor Bout–Brittney Griner prisoner exchange This page was last edited on 10 May 2024, at 19:01 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
North Korean prisoners of war being returned to North Korea during the Korean War by the United States. A prisoner exchange or prisoner swap is a deal between opposing sides in a conflict to release prisoners: prisoners of war, spies, hostages, etc. Sometimes, dead bodies are involved in an exchange. [1]
The following list of former hostages are what the FARC called "canjeables" (exchangeable), as they offered their freedom in return for the liberty of 500 FARC members held in Colombian prisons through a prisoner exchange. The humanitarian exchange never happened. The FARC released their last political hostages in April 2012. [1]
A Russian businessman released as part of last week's prisoner swap between Russia and the West is dropping his appeal of his U.S. conviction for engaging in a hack-and-trade scheme, after being ...