Romania Nine Romanian police officers prosecuted over violent facemask arrest Prosecutors in Bucharest have opened criminal proceedings against nine police officers for their treatment of two people they arrested for failing to wear facemasks in September. 05/03/2021
Nigeria Police and army in bid to rescue 317 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria Unidentified gunmen stormed the Government Girls Secondary School in the town of Jangebe and took the girls away, say police. 27/02/2021
United Arab Emirates UAE a 'lawless country with good PR', says Princess Latifa campaigner 17/02/2021
Nigeria 300 schoolboys kidnapped in Nigeria have been freed - state governor The abduction of more than 300 boys bears chilling similarities to the kidnapping of more than 270 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in 2014. About 100 of those girls are still missing. 17/12/2020
United Kingdom German prosecutors think missing British girl Madeleine McCann is dead McCann, then three, went missing on May 3, 2007, in and around the resort in Praia da Luz, on Portugal's Algarve coast. 04/06/2020
Greece Sailors kidnapped in armed attack on Greek tanker near Cameroon Greek authorities said an armed group boarded the tanker and ordered eight members including the 45-year-old captain to leave. 31/12/2019
Nigeria Pirates kidnap 19 crewmembers from Greek oil tanker Pirates have kidnapped 19 people from Greek tanker off the coast of Nigera, which is the third such incident in just over a month. 05/12/2019
World Pirates kidnap crew on two European-flagged ships off west Africa A total of 13 people have been kidnapped in two separate piracy incidents involving European-flagged ships off the coast of West Africa in the last few days. 04/11/2019
Romania Romania's police chief fired after missing girl killed by kidnapper The chief of the Romanian police Ioan Buda was fired by the Romanian Interior ministry on Saturday after a series of errors in his police department led to their failure to save a missing girl. 27/07/2019
Austria Austrian triathlete frees herself after harrowing kidnapping Austrian cyclist and triathlete Nathalie Birli said she was hit, beaten, and tied up before freeing herself from a kidnapper. 27/07/2019
USA Wisconsin man charged with kidnapping 13 year old girl and killing her parents 13 year old Jayme Coss escaped from the house where she'd been allegedly held for three months in the tiny town of Gordon by 21 year old Jake Patterson. 12/01/2019
World Instagram kidnap: could it happen to you? Olia Kedik, also known as Olia Moda, is a Russian fashion blogger based in San Francisco, California. Her Instagram account was hacked in early August 2018, and hackers bribed her to pay 350 dollars to get it back. 01/11/2018
Italy Polish man handed 16-year jail term for kidnap of British model It's after British model Chloe Ayling told Italian police she'd been lured to a photo shoot in Italy's fashion capital last summer, abducted and held captive for six days by Lukasz Herba 11/06/2018
