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Iran Orders Death Penalty for ‘Kidnapped’ German National

An Iranian court on Tuesday sentenced to death on terror charges an Iranian-German national who supporters say was abducted in the Gulf and forcibly returned to Iran for a show trial. The Tehran Revolutionary Court convicted Jamshid Sharmahd in connection with the deadly bombing of a mosque in 2008, the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Hostage takers demand ransom in exchange for release of Australian professor kidnapped in PNG

The Australian professor was conducting a field study with three female researchers when a group of armed men abducted them, took them to a secret location and demanded money for their release.

ABC News

Papua New Guinea: Police launch operation to free kidnapped Australian university professor and researchers

A police operation was under way on Monday to rescue an Australian university professor and three researchers taken hostage in the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Evening Standard

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Several foreigners among those kidnapped in highlands of PNG - police

Papua New Guinea police confirmed on Monday that several foreigners were among those kidnapped by armed criminals in the country's highlands region, hours after sources told Reuters an Australian university professor had been kidnapped in the region.

Reuters

Tragic secret signal girl, 12, sent friend night she was kidnapped and killed

Jonelle Matthews sent the signal after being dropped off at her home in Greeley, Colorado. No one ever saw her alive again and her body was found buried 35 years later

Daily Mirror

Egypt Says Six Copts Held In Libya Released

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry announced that the six Christian Egyptians who were kidnapped and illegally detained earlier this month in western Libya have been released. The six men, all relatives from Sohag, were abducted after traveling to Libya in search of work in early February. The Ministry said the Egyptian…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Nicola Bulley forensic expert claims missing dog walker 'could have been kidnapped'

Forensic expert Peter Faulding has been carrying out private underwater searches for missing mum of two Nicola Bulley, and says he does not personally think she is in the River Wyre

Daily Mirror

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“What do we do to thieves?”: Dealers battered and kidnapped drug user while filming 'degrading' two-hour ordeal

“You son of a b***h. You going to rob me? I’m going to torture you”

Manchester Evening News

Man sentenced to further 21 months in prison after kidnapping, stealing from woman in Gippsland

A man who has spent most of his adult life in prison has been sentenced to another 21 months behind bars after he kidnapped a woman in Moe in Victoria's east in 2021.

ABC News

‘I felt kidnapped’: Canada police sued for arresting photographer covering protest

Environmental publication the Narwhal argues Amber Bracken’s rights were violated for being detained while working

The Guardian - US

Rebels who abducted New Zealand pilot move him deeper into Papua New Guinea jungle

Philip Mehrtens was captured early Tuesday by separatist fighters

Evening Standard

Gang kidnapped and murdered innocent dad they thought had raped a teenager

Christopher Hughes suffered multiple injuries, most of which were inflicted while he was still alive

Wales Online

Two children kidnapped for 11 months by their mother are ‘still in shock’ after being found in supermarket

Adrian and Brooke Gilley have been reunited with their father Blake after allegedly spending 11 months on the run with their mother Kristi.

The Independent UK

Two children kidnapped for 11 months by their mother are ‘still in shock’ after being found in supermarket

Adrian and Brooke Gilley have been reunited with their father Blake after allegedly spending 11 months on the run with their mother Kristi.

The Independent UK

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Daily Mirror

Dad who strangled daughter to death told police he killed her to 'wash away the shame'

Taiba Alali fled her homeland in 2017 to start a new life in Turkey and had planned to wed her Syrian-born boyfriend. But when she returned to support the Iraq football team her family kidnapped her

ABC News

Police lay new kidnap charges against trio accused of Cassius Turvey's murder

Police say that just days before Cassius Turvey was chased and attacked, three of the people charged with his murder allegedly kidnapped another teenager.

Daily Record

Baby who was kidnapped from car with twin brother when mum went into pizza store dies a month later

Kyair Thomas, who was kidnapped with his twin brother Kasson while they were left unattended in a car last month, has tragically died in an unrelated "feeding accident".

Daily Mirror

Tragic baby who was kidnapped with twin brother while mum went to pick up dinner dies

Kyair Thomas, who was kidnapped before being found in an abandoned car last month, has sadly died at just six months old in what his family have described as a feeding accident

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Newcastle Herald

Pair to face court: body found, woman allegedly kidnapped

TWO people will face court today after a man was found dead in a Central Coast unit where a woman had allegedly been held captive for several days before making her escape, police say.

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on Britain’s shameful failings on child refugees

Abused, kidnapped and lost – the government should hang its head in shame over its lack of care towards vulnerable minors

ABC News

Man charged over alleged murder, kidnapping after man's body found, woman burned on NSW Central Coast

A man, 30, and woman, 33, have been charged after a man's body was found and a woman was injured at Wyong on the New South Wales Central Coast.

AAP

Pair charged after body found, kidnapping

Two people are facing charges after a man's body was found in a NSW Central Coast unit where a woman was allegedly held against her will.

Manchester Evening News

We tried the 'kidnapped' escape room that gets booked up every weekend and can see why

Adrenaline Escape has three centres in Greater Manchester, including one at The Trafford Centre

Daily Mirror

Man kidnapped and shot by thugs holding him to ransom after his cousin wins £50k jackpot

Unrepentant Carl MacDowall, Carlton Mullen and Kieran Kristensen laughed as they were sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court after the violent attack on Jacob Clough-Massey in 2020

Liverpool Echo

Man kidnapped and shot by gang demanding ransom after relative won £50,000

Victim was blasted in the leg with shotgun and abandoned on dark and secluded country lane

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