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The Michael Berry Show

AM Show Hr 1 | Death Sentence in China: An American’s Fight to Survive

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

An unbelievable true story: American businessman Mark Swidan walks into China on a routine materials trip and ends up sentenced to death. After twelve brutal years in a CCP detention camp, starvation, beatings, and nonstop pressure to confess to crimes he didn’t commit, he finally returns home after a prisoner swap. In this episode, Mark details the arrest, torture, sham trial, and the staggering failure of U.S. officials to protect him.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:07.4

It's that time.

0:11.5

Lock and load.

0:14.7

The Michael Vary Show is on the air.

0:19.3

America First includes all Americans, regardless of their race, their gender, or their sexual orientation.

0:27.6

Why don't we liberate these United States?

0:31.6

We're the ones who need it worse.

0:35.6

Let the rest of the world help us for change and let's rebuild America

0:42.8

first.

0:43.8

Our highways and bridges are falling far. Who's blessed and who has been cursed?

0:52.3

There's things to be done all over the world but let's rebuild

0:59.2

America first our message to black Americans tonight is this we want you what we want

1:06.2

for every American safe neighborhoods good jobs streets, a country where you are judged

1:14.0

based on the content of your character, not the color of your skin or your political beliefs.

1:20.4

Who's on the hill and who's watching the valley?

1:24.9

Who's in charge of it all?

1:28.8

God bless the army and God bless our liberty.

1:33.5

That's dumb the rest of the dog.

1:35.5

Last week, I interviewed a fellow named Mark Swardan, and you may have seen his name

1:40.9

or seen him on Fox or a number of different national outlets.

1:44.5

He was sort of taken captive by the Chinese government while he was doing business there,

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