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China: Factory workers hold an American executive hostage over benefit decrease

Apnews.myway.com reports that an American executive said Monday he has been held hostage for four days at his medical supply plant in Beijing by scores of workers demanding severance packages like those given to 30 co-workers in a phased-out department. Chip Starnes, 42, a co-owner of Coral Springs, Florida-based Specialty Medical Supplies, said local officials had visited the 10-year-old plant on the capital’s outskirts and coerced him into signing agreements Saturday to meet the workers’ demands even though he sought to make clear that the remaining 100 workers weren’t being laid off. Read article

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Eritrean refugees face poor conditions, threats from traffickers

As reported by allafrica.com, in February 2013, 20-year-old Mohamed*, like hundreds of thousands of other Eritreans, fled the brutal dictatorship in that East African nation in search of a better life in neighbouring Sudan. But for Mohamed and others like him, escaping into neighbouring countries has brought no end to their suffering. Many of them […]

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Indonesia: British oil worker kidnapped after ambush on roadway

BBC News reports that a 61-year-old British oil engineer has been kidnapped in the Aceh area of Indonesia. A spokesman for police in the province said the man, who has been named as Malcolm Primrose, had been traveling back from a mine site when a group of armed men ambushed his car. Police said the […]

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Saudi man kidnapped and tortured in Lebanon

A Saudi national has been missing in Lebanon amid concerns that he has been kidnapped, a Saudi news site has reported. According to the report published by Sabq, Khalid Bin Farooq Al Qarshi, 32, was seemingly kidnapped in the Lebanese capital Beirut 18 days ago and the kidnappers asked for a $100,000 (Dh367,214) ransom. They […]

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Kidnapping remains a constant threat for foreigners in Venezuela

Npr.org reports that German Garcia-Velutini got into his car and left work one day. It took him 11 months to get home. Kidnappers had nabbed the Venezuelan banker. His abduction is part of a problem that’s been getting worse every year for the past decade in Venezuela, which belongs to a region riddled with crime […]

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Kurdish man seeking asylum in Greece kidnapped and returned to Turkey

Ekurd.net reports that Syriza MP Dimitris Tsoukalas asked the Greek government on Tuesday to explain what it knows about the alleged abduction of a Turkish-Kurdish asylum seeker in Athens and his handover to Turkish authorities. It was alleged over the weekend by human rights activists that Bulut Yayla was bundled into a car in the […]

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Businessman from Ecuador kidnapped in New York

Ibtimes.co.uk reports that a businessman was bound up and tortured during a month in captivity after being snatched off a New York street in broad daylight by kidnappers who demanded a $3m ransom that his family in Ecuador did not have. Pedro Portugal, a father of six, was blindfolded, burned with acid and had several […]

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