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a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms

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surety

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QCPD clarified that a viral video on Facebook showing a robbery of a motorcycle inside the mall was just a simulation of hostage-taking and anti-kidnapping.

QCPD to probe QC mall's security team for 'uncoordinated' hostage-taking drill

Atambayev is suspected of use of violence against law enforcement officials organization of mass riots organization of the murder organization of attempted murder and organization of hostage-taking. Atambayev was detained by police on August 8 and charged with corruption after second storming of his house in Koi-Tash.

Former president of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev suspected of mass riots, hostage-taking and murder

(Note: This Pugoy hostage-taking incident is the first episode.

Publisher's Notes: PRRD offered to be hostaged

Traveling to high-risk areas puts you at increased risk for kidnapping, hostage-taking, theft, and serious injury," the US Department of State said in its website.

US flags Philippines among countries with high risk of kidnapping

"Certainly, the hostage-taking in Paris is a rejected and inhuman act and Iran condemns it," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Wednesday.

Iran Condemns Hostage-Taking Incident in Central Paris

The police have yet to say what motivated Rahim for the hostage-taking.

One dead as police rescue 22 hostages in Pindi

The hostage-taking in the church left a priest dead and another man critically wounded.

OIC condemns terrorist church attack in France

Bamako, Mali (AFP/Reuters/AP) - Suspected Islamist gunmen went on a shooting rampage at the luxury Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali's capital Bamako on Friday, seizing 170 guests and staff in an ongoing hostage-taking that has left at least three people dead.

Gunmen seize 170 hotel guests, staff in Mali; 80 freed, 3 dead

The United States sought the extradition of the defendants and charged them with conspiracy and hostage-taking resulting in death in violation of The Hostage Taking Act, 18 U.S.C.

After hostage takers who abducted U.S. citizen in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago where extradited to U.S., District of Columbia Circuit ponders whether Hostage Taking Act applies in cases where the alleged victim obtained U.S. citizenship by fraud

Tehran condemned the deadly hostage-taking, branding it an act foreign to Islam.

Three dead, including gunman, in Sydney siege

In a resolution on Monday, the Council urged member states to work in conjunction with relevant international organisations to adopt legislation to facilitate prosecution of suspected pirates, as well as to cooperate on the issue of hostage-taking.

UN Security Council reaffirms call to fight piracy, armed robbery at sea

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's recent pledge to resolve tension over a 2010 hostage-taking in Manila in which eight Hong Kong citizens died was "too late" as Hong Kong had agreed to put the crisis "behind," Philippine presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda was quoted as saying in a Manila news report picked up Friday by media in Hong Kong.

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