A growing number of North Korean women are smuggled from their country and trafficked into the sex trade in China, and forced to perform sex acts online for clients.
Tag: Kidnapping and Hostages
Benin Awakens to the Threat of Terrorism After Safari Ends in a Nightmare
A safari guide knew every watering hole in Pendjari National Park in Benin. He did not know that terrorists across the border could reach him in his country.
Yeshiva Student Found Stabbed to Death in West Bank
The killing set off a hunt for the assailant by the Israeli Army, which was treating his death as a terrorist attack. Investigators were pursuing the possibility of a botched abduction.
She Thought He Would Kill Her. Then She Complimented His Orchids.
Badly injured and kidnapped by a man she feared would murder her, an Austrian woman survived by keeping her cool and connecting with her captor.
Romania’s Police Chief Fired After Officers Took 19 Hours to Respond to Kidnapped Girl’s Calls
The case has set off national outrage, with hundreds of people gathering outside the suspect’s house to protest.
L. Bruce Laingen, Senior Hostage During Iran Crisis, Dies at 96
A career diplomat, he had only recently arrived in Tehran for a temporary diplomatic posting when the embassy was seized in 1979.
Migrants in Mexico Face Kidnappings and Violence While Awaiting Immigration Hearings in U.S.
The expansion of a U.S.-Mexican migrant-enforcement deal has left thousands of migrants stranded in dangerous Mexican cities.
Indian Court Convicts 6 Hindus in Rape and Murder of Muslim Girl, 8
The men were handed sentences of five years to life imprisonment in the case, which reflected bitter religious divisions in the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir.
Dutch Man, Captive for 7 Years, Dies as Philippines Troops Try to Free Him
The hostage, Ewold Horn, had been taken hostage by Abu Sayyaf militants in 2012 while he was bird-watching on a remote southern island.
The Money Changer of Kabul, His Daughter and Her Kidnappers
In a case that roiled Afghanistan, a father begged for his 6-year-old daughter’s life but had hardly any money for her ransom.