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Government International 

Family of Missing Ex-FBI Agent Testifies in Case Against Iran

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 MEGAN MINEIRO
damages, FBI, hearings, hostages, Iran, kidnapping, witnesses

The seven children and wife of the longest-held American hostage in Iran closed out a two-day hearing in D.C. federal court Thursday with agonized testimony on the nightmare they fell into back in 2007 when former FBI agent Bob Levinson disappeared. 

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Civil Rights Government International Media 

Iran Ordered to Pay $179 Million to Washington Post Journalist

November 22, 2019November 25, 2019 TIM RYAN
arrests, damages, hostages, Iran, journalists, prisons, solitary confinement

A federal judge on Friday ordered Iran to pay $179 million in damages to Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian, who spent 544 days in an Iranian prison after being falsely accused of being an American spy.

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Financial International 

Parents of Late US Hostage Chase North Korean Assets

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
hostages, North Korea, torture

The parents of former U.S. hostage Otto Warmbier, who died after being released from North Korea in a coma in 2017, are seeking to find and shut down illicit North Korean business assets around the world, to hold its government accountable for human rights abuses.

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International Politics 

Taliban Free Two Western Hostages in Prisoner Swap

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Afghanistan, AP4, hostages, Taliban

The Taliban released two Western hostages in southern Afghanistan Tuesday, handing them over to U.S. forces more than three years after they were abducted in Kabul, insurgent sources and police said.

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Financial Government International 

Iran Hit With New Sanctions 40 Years After Hostage Crisis

November 4, 2019November 5, 2019 JACK RODGERS
history, hostages, Iran, Sanctions, Trump administration

The Trump administration announced new sanctions Monday on the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, which gripped the nation as 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days during a student takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

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International Personal Injury 

North Korea

November 1, 2019November 1, 2019 BRIEF
dbrief5, hostages, North Korea, Terrorism

A federal judge granted partial summary judgment to 82 crew members of the USS Pueblo captured by North Korea in international waters in 1968, after which they were held hostage under inhuman conditions for almost a year; the actions constituted state-sponsored terrorism.

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International 

Push to Defeat IS in Syria Slowed by Concern for Hostages

March 15, 2019March 15, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
hostages, Islamic State Group, military, Syria

U.S.-backed Syrian forces say their push to defeat the Islamic State group in its last, tiny bastion in Syria has been slowed by the presence of civilians and scores of prisoners held by the extremists.

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International 

US Family Says Saudis Tortured Dual Citizen

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
hostages, Saudi Arabia, torture, Trump administration

The family of a dual Saudi-U.S. citizen imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for more than a year say he has been tortured and is on the verge of an emotional breakdown.

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International 

Pakistan Pledges to Release Captive Indian Fighter Pilot

February 28, 2019February 28, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Aviation, hostages, India, nuclear power, Pakistan

Pakistan’s prime minister pledged on Thursday his country would release a captured Indian fighter pilot, a move that could help defuse the most serious confrontation in two decades between the nuclear-armed neighbors over the disputed region of Kashmir.

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Criminal Latest Headlines 

Man Who Took Women Hostage at UPS Facility Is Dead

January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
hostages, New Jersey, UPS

An armed man who entered a UPS processing facility Monday morning and held two women hostage for several hours was shot and killed by police as he left the building with the women, authorities said.

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Criminal Government International Politics 

Paris Hostages Freed, Suspect Arrested After 4 Hours

June 12, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS
France, hostages

A four-hour hostage standoff in central Paris ended with police moving in, arresting the suspect and freeing those held, France’s interior minister announced late Tuesday.

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Criminal International 

French Police Storm Supermarket, Kill Hostage-Taker; 3 Dead

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS
France, hostages, supermarkets

An armed man took hostages in a supermarket in southern France on Friday, killing two and injuring about a dozen others, police said. He had earlier opened fire on officers nearby.

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Latest Headlines Regional 

Officials Tight-Lipped in Attack on California Veterans Home

March 12, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS
California, hostages, veterans

Authorities in Northern California have so far been tight-lipped about why a former Army rifleman may have killed three women after a daylong siege at a veterans home in Napa County wine country.

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Criminal Latest Headlines Regional 

Gunman Takes Hostages at California Veterans Home

March 9, 2018March 12, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Guns, hostages, Napa County, veterans

A gunman took at least three people hostage at a large veterans home in California on Friday and police locked down the sprawling grounds, Napa County Fire Capt. Chase Beckman said.

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Criminal International 

Ex-Hostage Boyle Charged With Sex Assault, Confinement

January 3, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Afghanistan, Assault, Canada, hostages, sexual assault

Canadian Joshua Boyle, his American wife and their children endured a long captivity in Afghanistan before they were rescued last fall and returned to Canada. Now he’s facing 15 charges including sexual assault, forcible confinement and administering a noxious drug.

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Government International Politics 

Russia’s Sobchak Doesn’t Blame Putin for 2002 Hostage Crisis

October 26, 2017October 26, 2017 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Election, hostages, Inter3, Russia

Russian presidential hopeful Ksenia Sobchak urged President Vladimir Putin on Thursday to seek a full investigation of one of the country’s worst hostage crises, but stopped short of blaming him for the deadly raid that ended the standoff 15 years ago.

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International Politics Religion 

Family Held Captive by Taliban-Linked Group Released

October 12, 2017 ASSOCIATED PRESS
hostages, Inter1, Taliban

An American woman, her Canadian husband and their three young children have been released after years of being held captive by a network with ties to the Taliban, U.S. and Pakistani officials said Thursday.

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Civil Rights Government National Politics 

Charity Worker Returns to US After Being Detained in Egypt

April 21, 2017May 29, 2018 TIM RYAN
Donald Trump, Egypt, hostages, Law4, prisons

An aid worker held for nearly three years in an Egyptian prison returned to the United States Thursday night, with the White House calling President Donald Trump’s talks with the Egyptian president critical to securing her release.

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Government International 

Family of Missing FBI Agent Accuses Iran of Torture

March 23, 2017August 24, 2017 TIM RYAN
FBI, hostages, immunity, Iran, kidnapping, National4, torture

Ten years ago, while visiting a resort island just off the coast of Iran, former FBI agent Robert Levinson disappeared. Now his family has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to make the Iranian government pay for their emotional distress.

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International 

Taliban Release Video Showing American, Australian Captives

January 11, 2017 AP
hostages, Inter4, Taliban

The Taliban have released a video showing an American and an Australian who were kidnapped in August, the first time they’ve been seen since their abduction.

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