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The U.S. Congress Foreign Affairs Committee agreed to a resolution Tuesday regarding Tigran Gambaryan’s imprisonment in Nigeria. Now the resolution will go to the House of Representatives. The official document urges the government of Nigeria to “immediately release” the Binance executive, and for the U.S. government to formally declare him a “citizen wrongfully detained by a foreign government.” Gambaryan was taken into custody in February by Nigerian authorities. Since then, his family says that his health has significantly deteriorated, as he suffers from a herniated disc among other ailments. The recent resolution states that there is no legal basis for the continued detention of Gambaryan, and claims that Nigeria has admitted that he is being tried in lieu of pursuing legal action against Binance. As a result, it urges the Nigerian government to release Gambaryan from imprisonment. The resolution document calls the Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act (also known as the Levinson Act) into play. This is a framework that defines which cases fall under the “unlawfully or wrongfully detained” umbrella, and the same act that helped release WNBA star Brittney Griner from Russia. “[The act] serves merely as a framework, outlining the processes and resources for the U.S. government to pursue accountability and secure the release of wrongfully detained Americans,” Andrew Rossow, digital media attorney with Minc Law and CEO of AR Media Consulting, told Decrypt. Richard Teng, CEO of Binance, told Decrypt in an interview this week that the company hopes that the U.S. government will declare that Gambaryan is “unlawfully held” in Nigeria. This resolution asks the U.S. government to formally determine and publicly identify the Binance executive as such. “Remember, the U.S. and Nigeria have a longstanding partnership that has spanned more than six decades,” Rossow told Decrypt. “If Nigeria chooses to ignore,…

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