All news on the topic: Kidnapping

Alex Bruno Silva dos Santos, 28, and Maria Leticia Sousa da Silva, 26, were kidnapped from their home in Brazil by four men dressed as police and later found murdered

Emily Damari, 28, was kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October 2023 by Hamas gunmen who shot her in the hand and leg, as well as killing her pet dog. She told Sir Keir Starmer she was given a single bottle of out-of-date iodine to treat her wounds.

French authorities have detained seven individuals following the violent abduction of David Balland, co-founder of cryptocurrency security firm Ledger.

Since the anti-government protests across the country in June, at least 82 people have been kidnapped, and 29 are still missing in what victims believe is a government-orchestrated intimidation campaign.

Pedro Silva Ochoa pleaded guilty to kidnapping and assaulting U.S. soldiers in Bogotá.

A Belgium court has ordered the government to pay reparations to five mixed-race women who were forcibly removed from their families in the colonial-era Belgian Congo.

Among the many horrifying videos posted online amid Mexico’s drug cartel violence, few have been as profoundly shocking as that of a 14-year-old boy kidnapped in late October along with about a dozen family members in the country’s south.

A Brussels court issued its ruling on Tuesday in the Encro case, convicting 119 individuals on charges including participation in a criminal organization, drug and arms trafficking, attempted extortion, and kidnapping. Sentences ranged from 14 months to 17 years in prison.

A British prisoner serving time at a Portuguese jail for kidnap and robbery has managed to escape by ‘climbing up a ladder’.

Over the past year, 7,568 people were abducted in Nigeria, with kidnappers demanding the equivalent of over US$6 million in ransom, according to a new report by SBM Intelligence, a Nigerian consulting firm.

Leonardo Bertulazzi, 65, wanted in Italy for kidnapping and other crimes allegedly committed as part of far-left group

A 40-year-old Zambian national, who was apprehended on Sunday after landing at South Africa’s OR Tambo International Airport, has been identified as a key player in a transnational organized crime syndicate involved in kidnapping, ransom, and crystal meth distribution in the country.

Three leaders of an extremist Jewish cult received lengthy prison sentences in U.S. court for the kidnapping and sex trafficking of a girl and boy, after they stole the minors from their mother in the dead of night and tried to smuggle them out of the country.