The sports star's high-profile case has encouraged families with detained loved ones to seize the moment.
Members of Mr Heath's family are part of a newly formed campaign, "Bring Our Families Home", which has just put up a mural of detained relatives in an upmarket DC neighbourhood to highlight their plights.Connie Haynes, mother of detained US Marine Matthew Heath, doesn't know how much more he can handle imprisoned
Hannah Shargi told onlookers that she'd often walked past the alleyway with her father, Emad, an Iranian-American venture capitalist who has been held in Iran on spying charges for four years. "Many of us have done research for years on what the best options are to bring our loved ones home," she said, and want to let Mr Biden know "we're on the same team".Hostage Ambassador Roger Carstens spoke at a press conference by the hostage mural
And the dilemmas of hostage diplomacy remain, such as finding the right balance between calling too much attention to cases or engaging too quietly, and asking whether trade-offs simply encourage hostile powers to take more prisoners. "I think it gives an opening for my brother and for the other hostages in Iran," she said. "That's the only way that we can get our Americans home."
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