US Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day is an awareness holiday created in 2023 with the passage of the US Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day Act.

The first US Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day was held on March 9, 2024 and marked with a flag raising ceremony on March 8, 2024 on the steps of the State Department headquarters in Washington D.C.[3] Under 36 U.S.C.

Hostages and Wrongful Detainees is to be flown at the United States Capitol, the White House, and any buildings were the US Secretary of State and US Secretary of Defense have offices.

[1][4] The flag was originally designed for the Bring Our Families Home campaign by University of Oregon professor David Ewald, in collaboration with family members of US hostages and wrongful detainees in the early 2020's.

It is generally flown immediately below or adjacent to the United States flag as second in order of precedence.