Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who lived in US, executed in Iran over terror conviction
Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces, has been executed in Iran
October 28, 2024Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces, has been executed in Iran
October 28, 2024Libya's Tripoli-based central bank said on Sunday it would shut down all operations and not resume work until a senior bank official kidnapped earlier in the day was released.
August 18, 2024Louisiana man accused in Loranger murders enters plea, state seeking death penalty
July 16, 2024A Missouri man is facing trial on kidnapping and sexual assault charges after a woman said she escaped weeks in his captivity
July 12, 20242 accused of kidnapping Louisiana girls and killing one of them are indicted in Mississippi
July 12, 2024A man has been given a life sentence for plotting to kidnap, rape and murder Holly Willoughby, one of Britain’s most high-profile television personalities
July 12, 2024A Miami court on Monday sentenced Germine "Yonyon" Joly, a former leader of the notorious Haitian gang 400 Mawozo, to 35 years in prison for his role in laundering kidnapping ransoms and
July 03, 2024Living in temporary accommodation in the desert above the Dead Sea, nine-year-old Emily Hand and her father Thomas slowly recover from an
June 25, 2024The leader of a notoriously violent gang in Haiti linked to the kidnapping of 16 U.S. citizens has been sentenced to 35 years in prison
June 24, 2024A Florida businessman accused in the disappearance of his estranged wife in Spain has pleaded not guilty to federal kidnapping charges
June 10, 2024The FBI has laid out a detailed case showing why agents believe a Florida man is behind his estranged wife's disappearance in Spain, but gave no indication about what they believe happened to her
May 07, 2024A retired Roman Catholic Bishop who was famous for trying to mediate between drug cartels in Mexico has been kidnapped
April 29, 2024Nigeria's army says soldiers rescued a pregnant woman who was abducted by extremists a decade ago while she was a schoolgirl in the village of Chibok
April 18, 2024Four people are under arrest in the March disappearances of two women in Oklahoma
April 14, 2024A new film in Nigeria is being screened to remember the nearly 100 schoolgirls who are still in captivity 10 years after they were seized from their school in the country’s northeast
April 05, 2024Nigeria’s president has urged security agencies not to pay ransoms to rescue nearly 300 schoolchildren abducted from their school in the conflict-hit north a week ago
March 14, 2024Rashidat Hamza is in despair
March 10, 2024Police in Nigeria say armed men have invaded a school in northwestern Nigeria and abducted 15 children
March 09, 2024In a world where technology is becoming more prevalent, sextortion has become a terrifying crime. This is when con artists demand intimate photographs from their victims in exchange for monetary bribes; if the victim does not pay, they threaten to distribute the images. The Executive Director of the Exploited Children Division, Lauren Coffren, explains. It’s when people use the internet to threaten and hurt others, often by pretending to be someone they’re not. They target those most at risk, like the elderly or those who feel alone. Criminals use sexually explicit or fake pictures and videos to blackmail people online.
March 04, 2024Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani was on hand Tuesday for the arrival in Rome of an Italian family of three just hours after their release from two years of captivity in the African nation of Mali
February 27, 2024Colombia’s government and the nation’s largest remaining guerrilla group have reached a last-minute deal to extend a cease-fire that began last year by six months
February 06, 2024The archbishop of Port-au-Prince says six nuns kidnapped in Haiti last week along with two other people have been released
January 25, 2024A Texas man has pleaded guilty to kidnapping a 13-year-old girl who was rescued in California last year when a passerby saw her hold up a “Help Me!”
January 20, 2024The ordeal of a Northern California woman whose kidnapping from her boyfriend’s home was first dismissed as a hoax by law enforcement is getting renewed attention as the subject of a new Netflix docuseries
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