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Tag: kidnapping

Hostage: ‘We were treated like a slave’

Freed Norwegian hostage Kjartan Sekkingstad, looking haggard and clearly exhausted after spending nearly a year in the clutches of an Islamic guerrilla group in...

Brende confirms hostage’s release

Foreign Minister Børge Brende could finally "set our joy free" on Saturday, after a week of intense work to secure the release of Norwegian...

Brende condemns latest hostage killing

Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende condemned the "liquidation" of Canadian hostage Robert Hall in the Philippines on Monday. Hall was being held along with...

Hostage-takers set yet another deadline

An Islamist terrorist group in the Philippines has released yet another video in which it threatens to kill three hostages, one of whom is...

Foreign ministry mum on new ransom demand

Norway's foreign ministry said it was "not natural" for them to comment Thursday on the latest ransom demand made by the kidnappers of a...

Tough week for Refugee Council

As Norway deals with its own influx of asylum seekers, The Norwegian Refugee Council (Flyktninghjelpen) has been dealing with some dramas of its own....

Hostage takers issue ransom demand

The Filipino insurgent group that kidnapped a Norwegian man, two Canadian men and a Filipina woman in the Philippines in September have finally issued their...

Islamist group publishes photo of hostages

The Islamist group Abu Sayyaf, known as a terrorist organization in the Philippines, has confirmed it was behind the kidnapping of four hostages including a...

Few developments in hostage dramas

Norway's foreign ministry has set up crisis teams to deal with the kidnappings of two Norwegians that were reported this month. They haven't been able...

Kidnapping has become ‘big business’

Kidnapping for ransom demands has become a large international industry, also in the Philippines where armed men seized a Norwegian, two Canadians and a Filipina...
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