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The couple faced a challenging period in February 2022 when Brittney was detained in Russia during the off-season for drug charges. She spent months in Russian custody, including a trial, before ...
Amanda Lindhout (born June 12, 1981) [1] [2] is a Canadian humanitarian, public speaker and journalist. On August 23, 2008, she and members of her entourage were kidnapped by Islamist insurgents in southern Somalia.
Noa Argamani was born in Israel on 12 October 1997 to Yaakov and Liora Argamani. [8] She is their only child. [9] Her mother Liora Argamani, also known as Li Chunhong in Chinese, was from the Chinese city of Wuhan and was a former national of China.
One of the kidnapped girls, Rakiya Abubakar, was reported on 5 January to have been found by the Nigerian Army along with a 6-month-old baby while they were interrogating suspects detained in army raids on the Sambisa forest. [105] Her identity was later confirmed by Bring Back Our Girls group. [106]
Hostage is a 2005 American action thriller film directed by Florent-Emilio Siri. The film was based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Robert Crais , and was adapted for the screen by Doug Richardson .
Lon Tomohisa Horiuchi (born June 9, 1954) is an American former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) sniper and former United States Army officer who was involved in the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff and 1993 Waco siege.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcoming Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit at Tel Nof after his release from Hamas captivity. The Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange (Hebrew: עסקת שליט; Arabic: صفقة شاليط), also known as Wafa al-Ahrar (Arabic: وفاء الأحرار) ("Faithful to the free"), [1] followed a 2011 agreement between Israel and Hamas to release ...
The Eloá Pimentel hostage crisis, as it is known, refers to the October 2008 incident involving 15-year-old Brazilian girl Eloá Cristina Pimentel, who was kidnapped, taken against her will and held hostage before being murdered by her 22-year-old ex-boyfriend, Lindemberg Alves. Additionally, Pimentel's friend, Nayara da Silva, was shot by Alves.