The family of Zack Shahin, the longest-serving American prisoner overseas, says the Biden administration has blown off their appeals to bring home the seriously ill business executive.
The administration’s apathy is particularly galling, they say, because Mr. Shahin is being held in a United Arab Emirates prison. Emirati president Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan last week helped the Biden administration broker a surprise deal to bring home basketball star Brittney Griner from Russia, where she was detained for nine months.
“All of a sudden you have the U.S. and UAE team up to get [Brittney Griner] out and my dad’s just kind of pushed to the side.