Jailed since 2013 and sentenced to life for supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Mohamed Soltan <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/30/middleeast/egypt-us-citizen-jailed-released/index.html" target="_blank">was eventually released,</a> the U.S. Embassy in Cairo said in May 2015. Soltan's family denies he belonged to the Brotherhood. Soltan had been a dual U.S. and Egyptian citizen, but he renounced his Egyptian citizenship as a condition of his release.