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Criminal International 

Nigerian Governor Says 279 Kidnapped Schoolgirls Are Freed

March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
children, kidnapping, Nigeria

Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the country’s northwest have been released, a state governor said Tuesday, as the West African nation faces a spate of school kidnappings.

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Criminal International 

Hundreds of Nigerian Schoolgirls Taken in Mass Abduction

February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
children, kidnapping, Nigeria, rescue

Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students in the West African nation.

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Civil Rights Government International Politics 

UN Rights Body to ‘Raise’ Missing Dubai Princess With UAE

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
human rights, kidnapping, United Arab Emirates, United Nations

The United Nations’ human rights body said Wednesday it will seek information from the United Arab Emirates about a daughter of Dubai’s powerful ruler after she said in video messages that she was being imprisoned in a heavily guarded villa.

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Criminal International Politics Trials 

Terrorism Trial Begins for Man Who Inspired ‘Hotel Rwanda’

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Africa, citizenship, hostages, kidnapping, Terrorism

The terrorism trial of the man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” began on Wednesday with his argument that a Rwandan court cannot try him because he is no longer a citizen and his assertion that he was kidnapped and is being held hostage.

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Appeals Law 

Abduction Witness Seeks Reinstatement of Retaliation Claims

February 16, 2021February 17, 2021 ANDY MONSERUD
Eighth Circuit, kidnapping, murder, retaliation, statute of limitations

Attorneys for a man who says he was subjected to retaliatory law enforcement scrutiny for speaking publicly about the infamous Jacob Wetterling abduction told an Eighth Circuit panel Tuesday that his claims should be heard.

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Criminal International 

Hungarian Couple ‘Imprisoned French Pensioner in Shed’

February 4, 2021February 4, 2021 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Hungary, kidnapping, senior citizens

A Hungarian couple face jail for locking up an elderly Frenchwoman in a garden shed near Siofok in western Hungary for a year and a half, prosecutors said Thursday.

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Criminal Entertainment Government Technology 

Not Child’s Play: Chucky Doll Featured in Errant Amber Alert

February 4, 2021February 4, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
children, film, kidnapping, Texas

The Texas Department of Public Safety has apologized after mistakenly issuing an Amber Alert that said the killer doll featured in the 1988 horror film “Child’s Play” was a suspect in the kidnapping of his 5-year-old son, Glen Ray, who was featured in “Seed of Chucky.”

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Criminal Government Regional 

Michigan Man Pleads Guilty in Plot to Kidnap Governor

January 27, 2021January 27, 2021 ANDY OLESKO
conspiracy, governors, kidnapping, Michigan, pleas

A man who was part of a group that prosecutors say planned to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer pleaded guilty Wednesday to a conspiracy charge.

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Criminal International 

German Serial Killer Charged Over French Cold Case

January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
children, France, Germany, kidnapping, murder, sex abuse

A German serial killer already in prison for the murders of three children has been charged in France over the killing of a 10-year-old boy in 2004 that horrified the country.

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Criminal International Trials 

French Trial Probes ‘Revenge’ Kidnapping of Elderly Hotel Heiress

January 4, 2021January 4, 2021 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
France, heirs, kidnapping

An aggrieved Italian restaurant manager, a hard-up British ex-soldier and a private detective are among 13 people who went on trial in France Monday over the kidnapping of a millionaire hotel heiress.

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Criminal International Science 

Malaysia Coroner: No Foul Play in Death of French-Irish Teen

January 4, 2021January 4, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
disability, kidnapping, Malaysia, teens

A Malaysian coroner ruled Monday that the death of a French-Irish teenager whose body was found near a Malaysian jungle resort where she vanished while on vacation was most likely a misadventure that didn’t involve other people.

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International Politics 

Freed Nigerian Schoolboys Welcomed; Calls for More Security

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
children, kidnapping, Nigeria, rescue

Bleary, barefoot, apparently numbed by a week of captivity, more than 300 Nigerian schoolboys, freed after being kidnapped in an attack on their school, were welcomed by the governor of Katsina state Friday.

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Criminal International 

Italy Detains Mafioso Linked to Brutal Child Murder

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
children, Italy, kidnapping, mafia, murder

Police in Sicily on Friday arrested a mafioso linked to the notorious kidnap and 1996 murder of a young boy whose body was later dissolved in acid.

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Criminal Government Politics Regional 

Suspects in Michigan Kidnapping Plot Plead Not Guilty to Federal Charges

December 17, 2020December 18, 2020 ANDY OLESKO
conspiracy, governors, kidnapping, Michigan, pleas

Five of the six men accused of scheming to kidnap Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer pleaded not guilty before a federal judge Thursday after a grand jury found the night before there was enough evidence to indict them.

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Criminal International Politics 

Nigerians Anxious After 330 Boys Kidnapped by Extremists

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Africa, children, Extremism, kidnapping, Nigeria

Anger, fear and exhaustion. Anxiety has overwhelmed many parents in Nigeria’s northern village of Kankara who await word on their sons who are among the more than 330 kidnapped by extremists from a government boys’ school late Friday.

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Government International 

Iranian Officials Sanctioned Over Disappearance of FBI Agent

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020 ERIKA WILLIAMS
FBI, hostages, Iran, kidnapping, Sanctions, Trump administration

The Trump administration announced sanctions against two Iranian intelligence officials Monday, blaming them for the 2007 disappearance of retired FBI agent Bob Levinson, who is now believed to be dead.

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Criminal International 

Italy Puts 4 Egyptians Under Investigation in Torture Death

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Egypt, investigation, Italy, kidnapping, torture

Italian prosecutors on Thursday formally put three high-ranking members of Egypt’s national security force and one police officer under investigation in the 2016 kidnapping, torture and killing of an Italian youth doing doctoral research in Cairo.

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Appeals Criminal International 

Court Rejects McCann Suspect’s Appeal in Separate Rape Case

November 20, 2020November 20, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
children, Germany, kidnapping, rape, United Kingdom

A German federal court has dismissed an appeal against the rape conviction of a man who is currently also being investigated over the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann.

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Criminal Education International Politics 

Teachers Kidnapped in Troubled Cameroon Region

November 4, 2020November 4, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Africa, kidnapping, schools, teachers

Between six and 11 teachers have been kidnapped from a school in a western Cameroon region gripped by a three-year-old armed campaign by anglophone separatists, local sources said.

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Criminal International Media 

US Makes an Arrest in 2008 Taliban Kidnapping of US Journalist

October 28, 2020October 28, 2020 JOSH RUSSELL
Afghanistan, hostages, journalists, kidnapping, Taliban

Over a decade after militants in Afghanistan kidnapped an American journalist and two colleagues at gunpoint, holding the trio hostage for nearly a year, U.S. authorities announced Wednesday that they have arrested and charged a onetime Taliban commander in the crime.

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