Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice

As Trump and Xi meet in Beijing, please watch this important short documentary from The Free Press about China's war on freedom of belief, featuring Grace Jin (daughter of imprisoned Pastor Jin Mingri). Lantos Foundation president Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett was also interviewed for this important report on China's shocking persecution of Christians.

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Following the tragic ex*****on of a Swedish national by Iran, Foundation president Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett and Professor Irwin Cotler write that Sweden must recognize the limits of "quiet diplomacy" and do more to confront the systematic use of arbitrary detention by hostile states like Iran. Sweden can choose to set itself on a path to an effective, coordinated response to hostage-taking – one that serves as an example for all of Europe.

The RIGHT (Resisting Illegal Government detentions & Hostage Taking) Coalition, made up of more than 70 civil society organizations and individuals dedicated to working against hostage-taking and arbitrary detention, recently released a set of recommendations that can help guide countries like Sweden to create robust, centralized hostage response systems with a dedicated senior official leading this work.

How to stop Iran executing its ‘hostage-diplomacy’ EU citizens? In the wake of the ex*****on of Swedish citizen Koroush Kivani last month, Sweden announced visa restrictions on Iranian embassy staff and pushed for new EU sanctions, but these actions offer no meaningful impact. These performative responses are no substitute for strategic deterrence work and demon...