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Former Colombian rebel leaders recognize role in kidnappings

A group of former leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, say the guerrilla organization was responsible for war crimes, including the kidnapping of thousands of civilians for ransom and also holding politicians as hostages for several years in the hopes of exchanging them for imprisoned rebels

The Independent UK

Kidnapping victim held at gunpoint drives erratically to alert police

‘Brazen kidnapping’ foiled after victim used hand signals to indicate to deputy he was in danger

The Independent UK

Exclusive-Three migrants were kidnapped in Mexico. The U.S. had vowed to protect them

Three asylum seekers were kidnapped in April while in a U.S. migration program that had placed them in the care of Mexican officials in the city of Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Texas, one of the victims and the U.N. migration agency said.

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Who's at risk of being kidnapped in Nigeria?

Nigeria ranks among the kidnapping hotspots of the world.

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Three Sydney kidnappings linked: police

A 22-year-old man has been arrested, accused of being involved in three separate kidnappings across Sydney.

AAP

US focuses on UN presence in Haiti as it seeks to help troubled country

LOS ANGELES — As Haiti grapples with an unprecedented wave of kidnappings and killings by armed gangs, a top State Department diplomat for Latin America and the Caribbean said Friday the U.S. is actively engaged in discussions about Haiti’s mounting security challenges and what the presence of a United Nations…

Miami Herald

Training local leaders in mediation can reduce violence: positive results in Nigeria

Violence and insecurity are plaguing the northern parts of Nigeria. Banditry, kidnapping and other forms of indiscriminate violence have risen sharply during the pandemic.

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There were 200 kidnappings in Haiti in May, UN agency says

Exactly one year after warring gangs shut down transportation links to the southern regions of Haiti, armed groups continue to restrict access to vulnerable communities in Port-au-Prince, forcing thousands of others from their homes on the eastern outskirts of the capital and creating travel problems in the north of the…

Miami Herald

Man admits kidnapping kids for $1m ransom

Ji Jiang, who kidnapped two Melbourne children last year and demanded a $1 million ransom, will stand trial over allegations he assaulted their mother.

AAP

Man denies kidnapping charge in alleged murder-for-hire plot

A Colorado man has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping a man later found shot to death in a Vermont snowbank in 2018 in what prosecutors allege was a murder-for-hire scheme

The Independent UK

Nigerian property crime could be reduced if neighbourhoods were better designed

Nigeria has a very high crime rate. The Global Peace Index ranked it the world’s 17th least peaceful state. Discussion of crime in Nigeria tends to focus on insurgency, terrorism and kidnapping, but other types of crime are thriving too.

The Conversation

Alleged spy extradited to Germany over 2017 Cold War-style abduction

A man suspected of involvement in the high-profile kidnapping of a Vietnamese businessman in Berlin in 2017 has been extradited to Germany from the Czech Republic, the German federal prosecutor's office said on Thursday.

Reuters

Feds say oil deal woes led to murder of Vermont man

Federal prosecutors say a conspiracy that resulted in the murder of a Vermont man grew out of a financial dispute between the victim and one of the men now charged with arranging to have him killed

The Independent UK

Russian MP suggests kidnapping Nato defence minister following major loss

It comes after Ukraine claimed Russia lost 30,000 troops as well as 40 colonels and 10 generals

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Russian lawmaker suggests kidnapping NATO defence minister in Ukraine

A senior Russian lawmaker has suggested kidnapping a NATO defence minister in Ukraine and bringing them to Moscow for questioning about what "orders" the West has been giving to Kyiv.

Reason

Appellate Court Upholds Trial Court's Rejection of "[Independent] Custody Investigator" Opinion

Among other things, the investigator "appeared to accept Father’s explanation that his 2003 kidnapping conviction based on allegations of domestic violence in a previous relationship was a misunderstanding, not the result of criminal conduct," "[finding] 'credible' Father’s explanation that he 'was unfairly incarcerated based on the lies of the victim…

The Hindu

Yasin Malik | The poster boy of separatism in Kashmir

The JKLF leader has a complex past of both fighting and engaging India, but he has remained a hardliner when it comes to his ideology

Daily Mirror

Texas gunman dubbed 'Yubo school shooter' and threatened to murder before massacre

A 17-year-old girl met Salvadore Ramos on social media app Yubo said in the chatrooms he would 'threaten rape and kidnapping and murder' before the Texas school shooting

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The Independent UK

Migrant back home after 7 years in Mexico jail unsentenced

An Indigenous migrant who was accused of kidnapping and jailed in a northern Mexico border city has returned to her homeland of Guatemala as a free woman after spending more than seven years in prison without a sentence

Miami Herald

As more doctors are kidnapped in Haiti, more hospitals protest by refusing new patients

The kidnapping-for-ransom of two more doctors in Haiti, where a pediatrician on Friday marked her 16th day in captivity, is prompting hospitals and physicians in the capital to close their doors and turn away new patients in protest.

The Conversation

Russia's reported abduction of Ukrainian children echoes other genocidal policies, including US history of kidnapping Native American children

Allegations have emerged recently that Ukrainian children are being forcibly removed from their country by Russia. Once there, they are put up for adoption.

Tribune News Service

San Jose suspects tried kidnapping baby 3 times before they succeeded, prosecutors say

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Two people, including a family friend, accused of kidnapping a 3-month-old San Jose boy last month attempted to take the child at least three times, including one instance in which one suspect posed as a Child Protective Services worker, until they eventually succeeded in late April,…

Axios

400 Mawozo gang leader charged over kidnapping of American missionaries in Haiti

DOJ alleges he directed kidnapping of group including 5 children in attempt to secure his release from prison.

AAP

NSW arrests over Victoria kidnapping

A man and a woman have been arrested in NSW over an alleged botched kidnapping in Victoria's southwest.

Miami Herald

Haitian gang leader ‘Yonyon’ indicted in DC for role in kidnapping of 16 Americans

The leader of a Haitian gang that kidnapped 17 American and Canadian missionaries on the eastern outskirts of Port-au-Prince last October was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia.

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