# kidnapped - Friday 10 May, 2019
# West Africa
# West Africa
One American, one Korean and two French hostages were freed in the operation.
# kidnapped - Thursday 9 May, 2019
# Venezuela
# Venezuela
In January, leader of the opposition Juan Guaido declared himself to be the country’s president.
# kidnapped - Tuesday 15 January, 2019
# Jayme Closs
# Jayme Closs
When Jake Thomas Patterson left the remote cabin on the 88th day of her captivity, Jayme Closs finally made a break for freedom.
# kidnapped - Wednesday 7 November, 2018
# Bamenda
# Bamenda
It was the first mass kidnapping to hit Cameroon and one of the gravest incidents in 13 months of pro-independence violence.
# kidnapped - Thursday 12 October, 2017
# Kidnapped
# Kidnapped
Caitlan Coleman and Joshua Boyle were kidnapped during a backpacking trip in Afghanistan in 2012.
# kidnapped - Thursday 24 August, 2017
# Don Nichols
# Don Nichols
Nichols (86) was sentenced to 85 years in prison for kidnapping biathlete Kari Swenson in 1984.
# kidnapped - Tuesday 30 May, 2017
# Central Criminal Court
# Central Criminal Court
At the time of the false imprisonment, the accused would not accept that the relationship was over.
# kidnapped - Friday 28 April, 2017
# Nicosia
# Nicosia
The child’s Norwegian father and Greek Cypriot mother have been engaged in a bitter custody battle.
# kidnapped - Friday 21 April, 2017
# Qatar
# Qatar
The party is believed to have included members of the Qatari royal family.
# kidnapped - Monday 1 August, 2016
# Brazil
# Brazil
Ecclestone’s 67-year-old mother-in-law Aparecida Schunck Flosi Palmeira was kidnapped on 22 July.
# kidnapped - Tuesday 26 July, 2016
# Snatched
# Snatched
Local reports say that the woman was snatched from her home in Sao Paulo.
# kidnapped - Monday 30 May, 2016
# Alan Pulido
# Alan Pulido
Alan Pulido was reportedly kidnapped by armed men yesterday.
# kidnapped - Friday 20 May, 2016
# Boko Haram
# Boko Haram
A campaign group said today the 19-year-old was not on the list.
# kidnapped - Friday 22 April, 2016
# Kidnapped
# Kidnapped
The North insists they were tricked into defecting by South Korean spies who effectively “kidnapped ” them.
# kidnapped - Thursday 14 April, 2016
# Nigeria
# Nigeria
More than 200 girls were abducted from a secondary school in Chibok on 14 April 2014.
# kidnapped - Friday 1 April, 2016
# Philadelphia
# Philadelphia
Young Ashir Simmons was found about five hours later.
# kidnapped - Thursday 17 March, 2016
# Jumpei Yasuda
# Jumpei Yasuda
He has asked his government in Japan to help secure his release from an al-Qaeda linked rebel group.
# kidnapped - Monday 25 January, 2016
# Kidnapped
# Kidnapped
The trial began today of a man accused of drugging, raping and detaining a young woman in a bunker.
# kidnapped - Monday 18 January, 2016
# Baghdad
# Baghdad
The individuals were taken from an interpreter’s home in Baghdad.
# kidnapped - Wednesday 19 August, 2015
# Child Soldier
# Child Soldier
The story of James Riak, an aid worker with GOAL in South Sudan, who was kidnapped from his family as a ten-year-old and trained as a child soldier.
# kidnapped - Monday 25 May, 2015
# Melbourne
# Melbourne
Alfio Anthony Granata repeatedly raped a Dutch tourist over the course of six-weeks.
# kidnapped - Friday 27 February, 2015
# Together Again
# Together Again
Pupils at the teenager’s school noticed similarities between her and a younger biological sister.
# kidnapped - Saturday 6 December, 2014
# Rescue
# Rescue
His sister made a plea for his safe return just this morning.
# kidnapped - Wednesday 19 November, 2014
# Maria Jose Alvarado
# Maria Jose Alvarado
Both were kidnapped on the eve of this week’s Miss World contest in London.
# kidnapped - Thursday 25 September, 2014
# Crime
# Crime
Gardaí are searching for two armed men.
# kidnapped - Monday 15 September, 2014
# Syria
# Syria
They’re to be replaced by 130 new peacekeepers.
# kidnapped - Friday 12 September, 2014
# Islamic State
# Islamic State
Diane Foley said her family was warned it would be charged if it tried to raise ransom money to free James.
# kidnapped - Friday 29 August, 2014
# Kidnapped
# Kidnapped
The boy has a brain tumour and needs medical attention.
# kidnapped - Sunday 24 August, 2014
# Worst Lie Ever
From The Daily Edge
# kidnapped - Tuesday 5 August, 2014
# Dirty War
# Dirty War
The 83-year-old woman is the head of the Argentinian organisation which tracks down babies stolen during the military dictatorship.
# kidnapped - Friday 1 August, 2014
# Kidnapped
# Kidnapped
62 people have been killed on the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah today after the collapse of a US and UN brokered ceasefire
# kidnapped - Tuesday 29 July, 2014
# Segundo Tevez
From The42
# Segundo Tevez
The Juventus striker has reportedly now cancelled his return to Argentina.
# kidnapped - Sunday 15 June, 2014
# West Bank
# West Bank
Troops carried out their biggest arrest operation in years last night, detaining 80 Palestinians.
# kidnapped - Wednesday 11 June, 2014
# Abduction
# Abduction
The woman was forced into a car and tied up in a car park near her college campus.
# kidnapped - Tuesday 10 June, 2014
# Thousands Killed
# Thousands Killed
Eyewitnesses say the women were forced into vehicles at gunpoint.
# kidnapped - Thursday 5 June, 2014
# Homecoming
# Homecoming
Bowe Bergdahl’s release has sparked a national debate in the US: was he an American prisoner of war? Or a deserter who abandoned his unit?
# kidnapped - Thursday 29 May, 2014
# Hostages
# Hostages
Authorities have revised down number of girls kidnapped . There are 219 girls still missing.
# kidnapped - Friday 23 May, 2014
# Boko Haram
# Boko Haram
China has also offered its assistance, while the United Nations imposed sanctions on Boko Haram
# kidnapped - Wednesday 21 May, 2014
# Support
# Support
President Barack Obama made the announcement today.
# kidnapped - Wednesday 14 May, 2014
# Kidnapped
# Kidnapped
Meanwhile, a regional governor has said that all of the girls shown in a video release by the militant group had been identified as students in the school attacked last month.
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