Sentences with phrase «abducted in»

The Convention seeks to prevent international child abduction and provide a legal framework for the return of children who have been abducted in violation of a valid Court Order.

According to Kamloops Daily News, the father Garrett Taylor is now traveling to Arizona to see his 10 - year - old son Valor Howell for the first time since he was abducted in 2004.

Wong is one of hundreds of so - called «left - behind» parents from around the world whose children have been abducted in Japan, the world's only developed nation that has not signed the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

Far more kids die each year in automobile accidents than get abducted in stereotypical «stranger danger» situations.

Earlier this month Representative Jared Huffman, Democrat of California, urged Secretary of State John Kerry to press Costa Rica to pursue justice in the case, noting that three American women and a Spanish woman who were volunteers in the turtle protection effort had been abducted in the same incident (they escaped).

It also recycles the plot point of Billy's brother Jimmy being abducted in order to get around the lack of a two - player mode, but here it is the main focus of the story, without so much as a mention of Marion / Marian.

Children are kidnapped every 14 seconds and killed within 3 hours of being abducted in most cases.

The story begins when Jake's family and closest friends are simultaneously abducted in a globally - coordinated kidnapping scheme.

Several hundred UN troops were abducted in 2000 - British forces mounted an operation to rescue the hostages and the rebel leader was captured.

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between — Matar's father, Jaballa Matar — a prominent critic of Muammar el - Qaddafi's dictatorship — was abducted in exile, in 1990, and turned over to the Libyan regime.

When his seven - year - old sister is abducted in the dark of night, Dazz pledges to do whatever it takes to get her back, embarking on a quest that threatens to rip apart the very fabric that's barely holding his shattered family together.

After 8 years a ceasefire was achieved in 1999 and UN troops arrived to police the agreement, but the peace did not last and UN forces came under attack with several hundred UN troops abducted in 2000 - British forces mounted an operation to rescue the hostages and the rebel leader was captured.

The true story of Michel Chickwanine, who was abducted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and pressed into the service of a rebel militia.

Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram is accused of unleashing a new weapon of war — the female suicide bomber strike -LSB-...] Boko Haram had turned some of the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted in April into human bombs» (as cited in the BBC news

According to Boko Haram crisis: Nigeria's female bombers article by Clothia Farouk (2014) «Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram is accused of unleashing a new weapon of war — the female suicide bomber strike -LSB-...] Boko Haram had turned some of the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted in April into human bombs» (as cited in the BBC news).

The billionaire's grandson was abducted in Italy and held for ransom by kidnappers who threatened to maim him unless they were paid.

The story, as told by a few introductory pictures at the start of the game, is that there has been an alien invasion, or something to that effect, and a whole swath of Little Kingdom's triangular citizens have been abducted in the midst.

The senior Getty was notoriously frugal, so when his free - spirited, hippy grandson was abducted in Italy, it set off one of the wildest kidnapping - for - ransom stories of the 20th century.

McDermott plays Robert James Saunders, a New York mechanic who is abducted in the middle of his birthday dinner at Cafe Volga and relegated to a portable meat locker.

Where John Wayne's Ethan Edwards went looking for a young girl abducted in a Comanche raid, Bidegain's ostensible hero is a father searching for a daughter who has left her family of her own volition to be with her Muslim boyfriend.

In theaters is Taken 2 directed by Olivier Megaton, the sequel to 2009's Taken, starring Liam Neeson as the father of a daughter, played again by Maggie Grace, who gets abducted in Europe.

Steve McQueen's shocking historical drama is based on the true story of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a freeborn northern black man who was abducted in Washington D.C. and sold to a southern plantation.

When he is initially abducted in Washington, D.C., en route to the South, the omniscient camera leaves his cell and looks over toward Capitol Hill to condemn a government still 24 years from outlawing slavery.

In 1973, J. P. «Paul» Getty III (Charlie Plummer) is abducted in Rome.

In October 2017 Joy Bishara recounted to United Nations Security Council members her experience of being one of nearly 300 girls abducted in 2014 from a boarding school in Nigeria by the Islamist group Boko Haram.

The PUNCH reported that over 200 schoolgirls were abducted in April 14, 2014 from a Chibok secondary school (Borno State) and 110 schoolgirls abducted few days ago at a secondary school in Dapchi, neighbouring Yobe State.

A damages claim is being brought against Straw by Abdel Hakim Belhaj, who was abducted in Thailand and flown to Tripoli along with his pregnant wife, Fatima Bouchar, in March 2004, with the assistance of MI6.

According to Reuters news agency, Boko Haram has killed at least 500 civilians since the girls were abducted in April.

President Buhari who narrated to Trump how he was able to secure the release of girls abducted in Dapchi, Yobe State thanked his host for agreeing to have America sell the Tucano Jets to Nigeria, for which $ 496m has so far been paid.

The 276 schoolgirls were abducted in a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, by the Boko Haram Islamist sect on April 14, 2014.

She recounted that former President, Goodluck Jonathan indeed showed concern and made spirited effort to rescue the schoolgirls abducted in Chibok in 2014.

In recent months, President Buhari has visited many of Nigeria's trouble spots, including the north - eastern town of Dapchi, where 110 schoolgirls were abducted in February by militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently holding a meeting BringBackOurGirls campaigners and the parents of the over 200 girls that were abducted in Chibok, Borno State in April 2014 at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa to grant audience to the protesters.

After his victory in the presidential poll, President Muhammadu Buhari repeated his campaign promise to adopt a different approach, in tackling the Boko Haram insurgency, and securing the release of the girls of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, abducted in 2014 by the terrorist group.

Alonson said that he is a family member of the rescued girl, adding that four of his nieces abducted in the school were still held by the insurgents.

The family of a Christian man who was abducted in Syria have spoken of their pain a year since he di... More

The family of a Christian man who was abducted in Syria have spoken of their pain a year since he disappeared.

Please tweet Kenyan Ambassador Githae — or the Kenyan Ambassador in your country — and ask for their help in locating an IJM lawyer, IJM client, and taxi driver: URGENT @KenyaembassyDC: @IJM lawyer & two others abducted in Nairobi.

«All of those abducted in those raids are now accounted for,» stated Middle East Concern.

2016 was the group's most violent campaign in years, with 500 abducted in 104 attacks #invisiblechildren #zeroLRA https://t.co/3vAWdR6sw6

In fact, last year alone at least 500 people were abducted in the Central African Republic by LRA forces.

(Different reports vary on how many dozens were abducted in the raids, but Reuters says it was «at least 90.»)

A Chinese billionaire has been abducted in Hong Kong by mainland agents, according to reports on January 31.

Eight years before Protective Edge, Shalit, an Israeli soldier, was smuggled from Israeli territory into the Gaza Strip through one such tunnel, after Hamas operatives killed three of his tank crewmates and abducted him in a surprise attack near the border.

Some people might even claim that advanced aliens cured the person through abducting them in their sleep, that crystal skulls or some other new - age woo woo was the cause.

Not exact matches

In her speech, Winfrey also highlighted the life of Recy Taylor, an African American woman who was abducted and raped by six white men in 194In her speech, Winfrey also highlighted the life of Recy Taylor, an African American woman who was abducted and raped by six white men in 194in 1944.

Responding to a question about resolving the issue of more than a dozen Japanese citizens who were abducted by North Korea in the 1970s, the spokesman said he was unsure of what content was discussed in the morning meeting.

Joshua Boyle, a Canadian, and his American wife, Caitlan Coleman, were held hostage by the Taliban's Haqqani network for five years after they were abducted while traveling in Afghanistan.

My children have either been abducted by aliens or my son has locked his younger sister in the closet and is scheming how to get her out.

The U.N in July said it had a list of more than 640 Sunni Muslim men and boys reportedly abducted by a Shi'ite militia in Falluja, west of Baghdad, and about 50 others who were summarily executed or tortured to death.