CNN
| May 13, 2013
The bitter brothers of Cleveland abduction suspect Ariel Castro are stunned by the case and furious with their sibling. "He's a monster," Onil Castro tells CNN. Brother Pedro is flabbergasted that one of the three victims is the daughter of a...
Democracy Now!
| May 9, 2013
Did failings on the part of authorities lengthen the horrific ordeal of the Cleveland kidnap victims? As Ariel Castro makes his first court appearance, Democracy Now! looks at allegations of police negligence and at Castro's background, including ...
Euronews
| May 9, 2013
Ali Haider Gilani, son of former Pakistani PM Yousouf Raza Gilani, was seized -- and possibly shot -- by unknown gunmen while campaigning for an assembly seat. Violence is escalating ahead of Saturday's election, and the Taliban has threatened mor...
Associated Press
| May 8, 2013
Kidnapping and rape charges were filed today against Ariel Castro, the owner of the home in Cleveland, Ohio, where three women were held captive for close to ten years, according to the local prosecutor. Castro's brothers, Pedro and Onil Castro, a...
CNN
| May 8, 2013
Instant internet hero Charles Ramsey, the neighbor who rescued the first of three women held captive in a Cleveland house for close to ten years, denied that he did anything special. "I'm just like you," he told Anderson Cooper. "We bleed the same...
The Wall Street Journal
| May 6, 2013
Charles Ramsey tells how he kicked in a door at a home in his Cleveland neighborhood to free Amanda Berry, one of three women in the house held captive for almost 10 years. Ramsay said he was "astonished" to learn of the situation in the home. He ...
Al Jazeera English
| May 6, 2013
Three young women who vanished some 10 years ago have been found alive in a home in Cleveland, Ohio. Three men have been arrested, and the women are safe in a local hospital. Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus were in their teens when they disappeared,...
Vice
| Apr 29, 2013
Sick and tired of rapes, murders, kidnappings and bodies dumped on their roads, hundreds of residents of Mexico's state of Guerrero have armed themselves to form "self-defense" groups or the even better organized "community policing" groups to gua...
Euronews
| Apr 18, 2013
A French family of seven has been freed unharmed after seven months in the hands of kidnappers in northern Cameroon. The family, including four children, was seized in a national park near the Nigerian border by gunmen who demanded the release of ...
Associated Press
| Apr 2, 2013
Rio de Janeiro cops have arrested three men in the kidnap and gang rape on a bus of an American student traveling with her French boyfriend. The victims were in Brazil to study Portuguese when they were accosted and held for hours. The attack has ...
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In criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away or transportation of a person against that person's will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment, a confinement without legal authority. This may be done for ransom or in furtherance of another crime, or in connection with a child custody dispute. When it is done with legal authority, it is often called arrest or imprisonment.
In some countries such as the United States a large number of child abductions arise after separation or divorce when one parent wishes to keep a child against the will of the other or against a court order. In these cases, some jurisdictions do not consider it kidnapping if the child, being competent, agrees.
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