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Yet Mr. Toobin maintains that by the time the captors began to demand that the Hearst family sponsor a food giveaway in California, Ms. Hearst was in sync with her captors' attitudes.
He returned to Japan and forgave his captors in person.
She kills all her former captors, except one — her son.
"We own your lives," says one of their new captors.
Her defiance of her captors made her a cause célèbre.
Hekmati being a Marine was not lost on his captors.
She feared the bombings as much as she feared her captors.
The boy told police his captors took his jacket and shoes.
In still others, the captors faced justice while leaving mysteries behind.
Their new captors, the women said then, starved and humiliated them.
The very absence of the corporate captors makes the horror worse.
The authorities said captors bludgeoned Mr. Illanes using sticks and stones.
Mr. Yasuda makes no reference to his captors in the video.
Neller said Hekmati's captors took notice that he was a Marine.
She must go along with her captors in order to survive.
And others led or participated in open combat against their captors.
He then fled his captors and was rescued by the army.
You know, in theory, that only his captors can release him.
Mr. Gustafsson told his captors that his government would never pay.
But after two brief exchanges, his captors broke off the discussion.
But this only intrigued her captors and had the opposite effect.
The question for her captors was what to do with her.
Meanwhile, her aunts were sold and ritualistically abused by ISIS captors.
She appears to have been killed by her captors on Monday.
There had been no harrowing videos or fantastical demands from their captors.
He foams at the mouth — and eventually collapses while his captors watch.
They are never allowed outside, except to be counted by their captors.
Both the hostages and their captors were "under tremendous pressure," he said.
"The captors decided they needed to get rid of him," he said.
Their captors earn as estimated $600 million a year in illicit profits.
Captors and captives come to see the arrangement as a natural one.
The U.S. will never release Ahmadi, nor speak to James Miller's captors.
The hardest part for me was giving military salutes to my captors.
His military captors denied requests for emergency surgery abroad, the relative said.
Ms. Coleman Boyle has said that the captors beat their eldest son.
Neither the video nor the images disclosed the identities of his captors.
Samson pleaded with God to grant him strength to destroy his captors.
He was filmed drinking a cup of tea offered by his captors.
" Later, he asked of his captors, "Why don't they bring us fruit?
Sometimes, he says, his captors would pour melted plastic onto his body.
Then the captors hung up, apparently hoping to ratchet up the pressure.
Instead, the smugglers became their captors, demanding each migrant pay another $1,000.
It is here that the bold may attempt to antagonize their captors.
When she tried to escape, her captors responded with sub-human violence.
But through her own bravery and wit she fled from her captors.
His captors stripped him naked, photographed him, and threatened to kill him.
None were permitted to leave the boundaries without permission from their white captors.
One of her would-be captors forms the other pole of the drama.
A Japanese journalist abducted three years ago in Syria wasfreed by his captors.
"It's the Nigerian army coming to bomb you," their captors would tell them.
He points out none of the alleged captors have guns or look threatening.
Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) is eager to seek vengeance against her former captors.
He said guns were involved and that Sherri did what her captors said.
Yacoubian believed that copping to a few minor infractions would satisfy his captors.
She told police her captors had released her early Thursday morning, Bosenko said.
Red Horse saw himself as a prisoner of war, drawing for his captors.
Boyle said there was a firefight between his terrorist captors and Pakistani rescuers.
The victims were required to turn over all their pay to their captors.
She finally escaped last spring, slipping into the bush while her captors slept.
But that's because — for whatever reason — James's "captors" didn't have particularly malicious intent.
Then afterwards they beat him, because he wasn't sufficiently grateful to his captors.
Her captors threatened to harm her family in an effort to extract information.
My captors ordered me to ring my family and tell them to send money.
Her captors would frequently use the iron to burn different parts of her body.
The captors beat Alihan, demanding to know whether he knew any other gay men.
Bergdahl testified that his captors locked him in "the cage" after a brief escape.
Rini claimed he'd just escaped from captors and was a victim of sex trafficking.
But he has at least told his captors that he is ready to retire.
It follows the next 48 hours of torment at the hands of her captors.
His captors forced him into a bathroom, he explained, and kept in total darkness.
But no information was given about the captors or how the release was secured.
We're also told she'll get some basic psychology training on dealing with her captors.
The captors were neither arrested nor taken in for questioning, the national police said.
His captors showed him DVDs and videos on their cellphones of executions, he said.
In this production, Freia's temporary captivity has caused her to bond with her captors.
He was courageous, with a courage that frightened his captors, and inspired his countrymen.
This was the one rule where their wishes lined up with their captors' intent.
The big picture: Little is known about Tice's whereabouts or who his captors are.
He was healthy, muscular and about 18 pounds heavier than any of his captors.
Many of the women, like Balaraba, found ways to resist and defy their captors.
A police spokesman said they were rescued after a police shootout with the captors.
He was courageous – with a courage that frightened his captors and inspired his countrymen.
He convinced his captors that rather than killing him, they should surrender to him.
Rosa was known as Noor – hers was an infidel's name, her captors told her.
He was courageous -- with a courage that frightened his captors and inspired his countrymen.
As foreign as the white captors who raped, brutalized and enslaved those same bodies.
This image of him kneeling before his captors is the only one she has.
As time passes, Anna comes to feel if not comfortable with her captors then acclimated.
He said he escaped his captors and ran across a bridge from Ohio to Kentucky.
Was the whole thing a depressingly empty, unironic attempt at publicity for Sophia's human captors?
Jaime selflessly saves Brienne from getting raped by their captors, and it costs him dearly.
When she defended Maggie against one of the captors, who was an abusive SOB.  8.
KIEV — Chained to a radiator in eastern Ukraine, the former soldier watched his captors closely.
They are believed to have been forced to convert to Islam by their terrorist captors.
His captors demanded his Facebook account passwords and his phone, but came up with nothing.
The captors are members of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Python Action Team.
Besides depriving the men of food and water, the captors would often beat the men.
And while the experience shook Ma, he also is grateful -- to one of his captors.
Realizing she would die after all, she shoots her captors at the gas chamber door.
My captors wanted the release of their "Muslim brothers" being held in jails across Pakistan.
Family freed They're away from their captors, but this family doesn't exactly feel free yet.
Boyle said their captors raped his wife and authorized the killing of their infant daughter.
She told investigators that both of her captors spoke Spanish a majority of the time.
McCain landed in a lake and nearly drowned; his captors bayoneted him in the abdomen.
After an initial interrogation at Berga, he was raped while other captors laughed at him.
After 130 hours, the police pumped tear gas into the vault and the captors surrendered.
But after he wandered in the desert for two nights, his captors tracked him down.
Their captors tortured them with electric shock, demanding impossible sums, tens of thousands of dollars.
For a few days, Chepe was able to elude captors and became a relatable rogue.
But critics suggest she suffers from Stockholm syndrome, becoming too cozy with her former captors.
He escaped from his captors and went on the run to try and protect his family.
Basically every time she opened her damn mouth and spouted a lie her captors believed. 11.
Daryl, on the other hand, appears more willing to change his situation and defy his captors.
After watching the TV, Luke discovers the Waterfords — his wife's captors and rapists — are in town.
We followed a policy of secrecy, initially at the request of the captors and our government.
They were transported to Pakistan by their captors and were held for more than five years.
He was not tortured, he says, but believes that's because his captors intended to kill him.
On June 24, Flor's captors freed her by dropping her off at a local politician's house.
Trump wants Brunson freed and believes the pastor's captors reneged on a deal to release him.
Barbara's bitter husband Sam (DeVito) refuses to pay up, causing Barbara to bond with her captors.
The next scene shows Blaskowicz at his trial, awaiting death at the hands of his captors.
The consequence was a five-and-a-half-year sentence suffused with torture by his captors.
We are told to trust that our government is working to bring Jim's captors to justice.
Rather than expressing outrage or disdain, the hostages expressed positive feelings and vehemently defended their captors.
Dante was one of his captors who forced him to watch the deaths of his friends.
If I could give them the power to execute their captors at will, I probably would.
From his view inside their camps, Mr. Gustafsson said it was evident his captors had resources.
The couple were eventually able to report the crime shortly after their captors left, he added.
Captors shackle their prisoners in darkness, in underground chambers too small to allow them to stand.
In July of that year, he escaped his captors by squeezing out of a basement window.
After six months she "escaped" to neutral Switzerland, almost certainly with the complicity of her captors.
Rini claimed he'd just escaped from captors and was a victim of sex trafficking, Glassman said.
In previous videos, the couple said their captors would execute them if the demands weren't met.
How gospel music was their way of revolting against their captors while they were in bondage.
They are kidnapped, sold between captors, extorted and sometimes forced into prostitution and unpaid hard labor.
The two must work together and overcome their differences in order to try and escape their captors.
She allegedly told them she managed to escape her captors, but had to leave the baby behind.
As authorities search for her alleged captors, here are five things to know about the case: 1.
Because in Gilead, it's likely that running away from your captors won't lead to some fairytale ending.
The footage briefly follows Markus as he rallies other androids and leads riots against their human captors.
In one he was bloodied and blindfolded, and in another he drank tea and praised his captors.
He said he escaped his captors and ran across an Ohio River bridge from Ohio to Kentucky.
Each place, he had shackles, chains, and blindfolds so he couldn't look his captors in the eye.
One time, he was kidnapped himself and had to borrow a million pesos to pay his captors.
Fast cuts of gaping slaves flayed by sword-wielding captors switch between burning factories and charred forests.
" A few months later, his captors finally "cottoned onto the fact that I was not a spy.
Gustafsson returned to Sweden in June this year after being released by his captors, Swedish authorities said.
They were freed last week in Pakistan after a firefight between their captors and Pakistani rescuers. 210.
Today, Chacha the chimpanzee scampered out of a Japanese zoo and eluded captors for nearly two hours.
His captors parade him in front of cameras to say, under duress, things he obviously doesn't believe.
His F.B.I. captors, watching him from behind protective glass, may be on the winning side of history.
It is not currently clear who Allen's alleged captors are or how she became involved with them.
He delivered an emotional message to his family but revealed little about his captors' demands or intentions.
I couldn't photograph her captors — those big men who detained her and their wives who beat her.
The child's captors George (Jeffrey Donovan) and Gloria (Kyra Sedgwick) prove to be wily — if quirky — opponents.
He also went out of his way to praise his Kurdish captors, as the official looked on.
An Indonesian tugboat crew member swam to safety in August after escaping militant captors in the Philippines.
He says he was once forced to be present as 7353 of his captors raped one woman.
Elliot even pulls a gun on his captors, only to discover that they've already removed the bullets.
After taking a week off, Serial is back and Episode 4, "The Captors," hits the ground running.
Mr. Warsame pleaded with his captors not to be sent to Guantánamo and started cooperating almost immediately.
Jefferies was actually attacked in his home and tied up while captors threatened to rape his girlfriend.
Parrots are not as big as Orca whales and cannot rebel physically against their captors so powerfully.
Lee and Kwang were tasked by their captors with keeping the men online for as long as possible.
Smart also spoke about seeing her captors in court for the first time, eight years after her rescue.
Khweis told his captors that during his time in ISIS guesthouses he was surrounded by Russians and Uzbeks.
He calls himself "Bad Ape," no doubt after the insults once hurled at him by his human captors.
A lot of acronyms here, which indicates that negotiations between the US and Bergdahl's captors were heating up.
Rumors swirled that Fonda had given secret messages from the POWs to their captors, which was proven untrue.
Others were returned to their families barely alive, with their captors encouraging relatives to carry out honour killings.
His captors are two witches who take to torturing and teasing him before castrating his fake foam penis.
Lamiya Aji Bashar was left  blind in one eye after a mine exploded when she escaped her captors.
Her alleged captors in Dubai and the United States were members of the same family, she told authorities.
It also dawned on me that, outside of my captors, no one on earth knew where I was.
The second track is to identify pathways to connect to the captors or decision-makers in their government.
I was praying our captors would still have some manners and not frisk her, at least not there.
Nine months later, a passerby spotted her walking down the street with her two captors and notified police.
He told his captors he was a US citizen and asked them to take him to the Americans.
Her captors wore robes with beige camouflage print — clothes she had not seen on other men in Libya.
After nearly two years of torture and starvation, Jim was publicly beheaded by his ISIS captors in 2014.
In that instant, he felt certain that their captors were ISIS and soon they would all be killed.
Eight months after he was caught, Mr. Tran's captors traded him to aid workers who carried humanitarian supplies.
As it turned liquid in the flames, the man's captors held his hand and prayed for his salvation.
Eight of those detainees were recently released after receiving a payment of $1,300 each from their Saudi captors.
She told Broadly about the moment her captors pressed her face down against the floor of her cell.
The second part is being able to reach out to the captors, to the people who are responsible.
His captors eventually let him go with a stern recommendation given to many similar youths: Leave the country.
Caitlan Coleman's parents have never talked to their daughter's captors and don't know the names of their grandchildren.
Micah: Pulling the knife out of your chest and stabbing someone else with it, then shooting your captors.
Abandoned in woodland, their captors seemed to hesitate, walking away from the scene, before turning and opening fire.
His captors alleged that Mobley attempted to escape, killing one intelligence officer and injuring another in the process.
Murad detailed how she and thousands of Yazidi women and girls were enslaved and raped by their ISIS captors.
Especially if her captors become more and more human, and sympathetic, and attractive— No. They're a different species, Thandi.
Every day in Mosul, a civilian population held hostage by ISIS is caught between their captors and their liberators.
They just knew three men were about to be executed — so they tricked their captors and freed the hostages.
After officers surrounded the house, Anthony escaped from his captors and ran from the house, wearing only boxer shorts.
While held captive at Hanoi's Hoa Lo prison, McCain was denied medical attention and repeatedly tortured by his captors.
He remembers the names and faces of his captors, and he wants them recorded for the world to see.
She was rescued, went on to testify against her captors, and became a child safety advocate as an adult.
He also described brutal beatings by his captors, illness brought on by squalid conditions and maddening periods of isolation.
Her captors told her a Rohingya man was willing to give her freedom if she agreed to marry him.
We all remember the images of our sailors being forced to their knees by their Iranian captors at gunpoint.
Americans made up 20% of those hostages taken since 2001, and half of those were killed by their captors.
He even keeps the phone numbers of his captors and often thinks about calling them to express his anger.
I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it.
The Americans told of beatings, torture and deprivation, but they still found ways to get back at their captors.
We all remember the images of our sailors being forced to their knees by their Iranian captors at gunpoint.
Only after his captors learned that his father was an admiral was he given a modicum of medical treatment.
It said some of Mr. Moore's Somali captors brandished AK-47 assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and handguns.
I rather sympathized with the terrifying meat blob, which made chowing down on my captors all the more delicious.
Within months, Mr. ya Toivo was arrested and imprisoned in Pretoria, where his captors repeatedly tortured him, he said.
After her trafficker paid a ransom to her captors Becky was freed, but her ordeal was far from over.
Some Nigerian returnees said in interviews that their captors had made them dismember Libyan corpses and remove the bones.
She insists on a pseudonym, because she may have escaped, but the reach of her former captors is long.
Here, it's one of the worst things that could possibly happen, and your captors will use it against you.
Prisoners, of course, are not permitted to unionize, as labor law does not consider them employees of their captors.
He was freed by Thursday after giving his captors information on how to abscond with the $1 million in cryptocurrency.
She then led detectives to her alleged captors: Thomas Barker, 32, Steven Powers, 20, and 31-year-old Joshua Holby.
When she used the rosary in front of her captors, knowing they'd see any form of religion as weakness.  5.
Even then, J. Paul Getty haggled with the captors until the price for his grandson's release was suitably tax deductible.
He said he was sexually abused by his captors, declining to describe details, as they tried to get a confession.
"They're the ultimate examples of the Stockholm Syndrome," Hwang added, referring to situations in which captives bond with their captors.
Herzog even hires locals to play his captors as Dengler reenacts the torture he went through and how he escaped.
"Bernie has gotten Stockholm syndrome — he's become a victim to his captors," said delegate David Bright, 68, of Dixon, Maine.
The days leading up to Ridsdel's execution were full of pressure and frustration — both for his family and his captors.
The interior ministry said the girl, named Mahsa, was abducted on Sunday with her captors demanding a ransom of $300,000.
At first, he shielded himself with one of his suction cups and appeared to argue with his would-be captors.
She was released on July 17 after her captors discovered she had a two-year-old child, she told police.
She was allegedly kidnapped and detained for six days while her captors attempted to sell her on the dark web.
Pepe the Frog, as perverted by its captors, is a kind of inverted Kermit: a frog drained of any humanity.
The family can be seen pleading for their lives in a video released by their Taliban captors in December 2016.
The doc claims Amelia is in the photo, sitting on a dock, surrounded by people who might be her captors.
The eight-limbed Thai monarch soundly beat his opponents and so impressed his captors that they eventually set him free.
Emma: I don't know her intent, but humanizing yourself is a classic move when dealing with captors or threatening actors.
And you found one by surreptitiously filming—pretending to teach your captors how to use the camera but actually recording.
The British jihadis were "harsher in their violence," than other captors, one former hostage, French journalist Didier Francois, has said.
They conceded that they did not know who the captors were, or even whether Ms. Hagen, 68, was still alive.
His captors, he said, warned him that any criticism of North Korea's ruling Kim family would lead to his death.
It's extremely rare that the government or the captors will come to you with what they are honestly looking for.
But books took months to get through, and the ones he requested were sometimes replaced by others his captors preferred.
He "shows no respect or cooperation," his captors said in declassified records published in Namibian newspapers after independence in 20053.
At the encouragement of his alternate personalities, David breaks his promise to Syd and attacks Division 3, his sister's captors.
In "Glass," his captors use a large bank of strobe lights to force a switch in whatever personality is dominant.
In sporadic calls to his wife, Mobley told of how his captors repeatedly beat him and threatened him with death.
He says Supi's captors — it is not clear whether they are police — told him he will be taken to China.
A subsequent video released by the Pakistani military showed the pilot drinking tea and thanking his captors for treating him well.
"Only God knows," she said dryly, at the idea her captors and the pilots overhead were in fact in cahoots together.
Days after the family's rescue, Boyle told reporters their had captors raped his wife and killed their fourth child, a daughter.
The episode finds the normally gusto-filled Daryl at the mercy of his captors, including a man he once helped, Dwight.
The 31-year-old soldier from Hailey, Idaho, has said he was caged by his captors, kept in darkness and beaten.
In the northern Somali bush, Arnel Balbero trapped birds, wild cats and even rats -- anything to outwit his captors and survive.
He escapes his captors by building a primitive armored suit, but after returning home, he refines the design and its capabilities.
There's a fantastic primal feeling that comes with being an ape just trying to find freedom while taking down armed captors.
The gangs' leaders began co-ordinating their activities nationwide, plotting revenge against their captors and vying with one another for dominance.
Apart from a few brief videos released by his captors, little is known about what happened to him after he disappeared.
It is difficult to say which was worse, the physical torture or the excruciating tricks my captors played on my mind.
Both Arlen and Daenerys start out kicking and screaming, and are surprised to later develop feelings for their, erm, captors/protectors.
Brown alleges that Drexel tried to flee her captors, but was immediately caught in the house and pistol-whipped, Munoz testified.
Trapped alongside the minions of the faceless corporation that has spirited them away, the women and their captors struggle to survive.
Her offscreen screams suggested she was in some sort of distress, perhaps after being abused or otherwise victimized by her captors.
Jesse's captors had threatened to kill the boy like they killed his mother whenever they thought Jesse might try to escape.
Thousands of soldiers died from lack of food, medical care, exhaustion, and beatings and executions at the hands of their captors.
He famously kept a photograph of his grandfather, kneeling on the ground before his Nazi captors moments before he was killed.
British soldiers had moved him outside and stripped him of his breeches, when his captors received orders to kill him, too.
Speculation about Shahbaz Taseer's health has continued over the years, with some assuming that he had been killed by his captors.
McCain, I was deeply moved by his capacity to forgive, especially concerning his captors and their despicable treatment of our POWs.
John McCain, commander of American forces in the Pacific — his captors at the Hanoi Hilton offered to free the younger McCain.
Its fantastical elements are grounded by the figure of the tormented little boy fleeing his captors, and his excruciating death animations.
In March 2013, Schrier converted to Islam to gain favor with his captors, a move that partially improved his imprisonment conditions.
Not wanting to lose their bounties, the captors sprayed the tops of the boxes with machine guns to open ventilation holes.
After Bushra's captors took her to Rosa's house for a visit, she said she memorized the route so she could return.
Suhayla was taken by her Turkmen captors to a refugee camp in Turkey, where authorities discovered her situation and repatriated her.
"This morning there was a 10-minute gun battle and the two were left behind by their captors," said Lt. Gen.
A closing note that the captors "lie in unmarked graves in East London" seems out of step with what precedes it.
The torture went on until K.K. signed a confession of financing "terrorist" demonstrations — entirely fiction, he said, dictated by his captors.
Seized by the Confederates while raising a regiment of volunteers, Jones told his captors he wanted to join the Confederate Army.
At midnight, Wanjiku and her captors reached the mugumo tree where a dozen shadowy figures made her vow to abandon her work.
To hide the diaries from their captors, the girls would bury the notebooks in the ground, or carry them in their underwear.
When she further sold her story by asking one of her captors to stop smoking around Maggie for the baby's sake. 7.
They slowly bargain down the ransom demands of Paul's captors while trying to locate him and convince Getty to pay the ransom.
The crash and assault by his captors left him with two broken arms, a broken leg, broken shoulder and numerous stab wounds.
Papini's husband, Keith, described the horrific condition she was in the first time he saw her after her release by her captors.
Flashman, faced with superior firepower in unsteady hands, would have smiled, made himself pleasant to his captors and tried to buy time.
Auschwitz and Belsen concentration camp survivor Eva Behar shows her prisoner number that was tattooed on her arm by her Nazi captors.
He declined to give more details of the alleged kidnapping, including the identity of his captors, because the incident was under investigation.
There are military rules of engagement that advise American prisoners of war to disclose as little information as possible to their captors.
A kidnapped soccer player in Mexico pretty much facilitated his own rescue by fighting with his captors and calling the cops himself.
One costume anomaly here is that in subsequent scenes with her Dothraki captors, her dragon necklace is suddenly smaller and missing wings.
While investigating the texts, Streamwood police came across the 30-minute Facebook Live video showing the victim being tormented by his captors.
By mid-1968, his father was named commander of all U.S. Forces in Vietnam and his captors offered to send him home.
She told authorities she managed to escape two captors wearing ski masks, but that the kidnappers still had her infant daughter, Shaylie.
Kaplan appeared via video conference looking, according to one viewer, like a hostage trying to smile while his captors stood just offscreen.
Authorities found Pulido in safe house in the southern part of Ciudad Victoria, his hometown, and one of his captors was arrested.
In all three cases, the captives are unable to meet their captors' demands without breaking some important part of themselves clean off.
His treatment at the hands of his captors was unforgivable and it tells us a lot about the nature of the regime.
A group of co-conspirators allegedly sunk, burned and abandoned the ship and divided the slaves among their captors, the statement said.
Hostages who interact positively with their captors get something for it — a glass of water or slice of bread, promises of jobs.
About a month later he was among about 600 prisoners who staged a historic uprising against their captors and tried to escape.
In dramatic videos released last year by her captors, Ms. Coleman, who is from south-central Pennsylvania, had pleaded for her life.
With assistance from American intelligence, they located the vehicle and rescued the family last week in a dramatic confrontation with its captors.
According to Pakistani security officials, they were able to shoot out the tires of the vehicle, but the captors manage to flee.
Then another fellow prisoner visitedreporting the captors cooked rice soupto aid their father's poor digestionbut received orders to send him to Cambodia.
That was the year Harvey Weinstein was kidnapped and held for two weeks, while his captors demanded millions of dollars in ransom.
One of his captors struck his left thigh with a bat and scraped his neck with an ax, threatening to cut him.
His captors held him in brutal conditions for five years, including locking him in a cage and in darkness for lengthy periods.
The cruelty of his Communist captors ensured he would never raise his arms above his head for the rest of his life.
" He said he contemplated escape but thought that if he tried to leave his captors "would pay people to hunt me down.
One of the assassins told his captors he'd been directly instructed about the mission by Kim Yong Chol, South Korean media reported.
" Park has said he was tortured and sexually abused by his captors, and called the treatment he received "humiliating" and "worse than death.
The cruelty of his Communist captors would ensure he would never raise his arms above his head for the rest of his life.
Hekmati's captors would force him to take lithium and other addictive pills and then stop giving him the pills to invoke withdrawal symptoms.
Relatives hug one of the hostages held by Islamic State militants who escaped from his captors in al-Qaryatayn, Syria, on Oct. 29.
In 1918, Tsar Nicholas II and his family were assassinated by their Bolshevik captors, marking the end of a 300-year imperial dynasty.
Even from prison, she is said to have continued fighting by inserting coded messages about her captors in several letters to her sister.
He also overcame injuries suffered as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, where he endured beatings and torture by his North Vietnamese captors.
We'd like reach Inky for a blow-by-blow on how he outsmarted his mammalian captors, but it seems nobody can locate him.
Papini's husband, Keith, has described the brutal condition she was in the first time he saw her after her release by her captors.
Even when the boy's captors sliced off one of his ears and mailed it to a Rome newspaper, the oil tycoon was unmoved.
" Finally, speaking directly to Murad's former captors, the attorney said, "Nadia Murad's spirit is not broken, and her voice will not be silenced.
In the past 50 years or so, there have been several high-profile kidnapping cases involving women (or young girls) and male captors.
News. Smart was taken from her bedroom and brutalized by her captors for nine months before being rescued when she was just 14.
The captivity He spent the following days tethered to his captors in a series of cheap motels, where they drank and chain-smoked.
Boyle, in a video statement released by the Pakistani military, called his captors criminals and pagans who had nothing to do with Islam.
According to Bosenko, Papini told police her captors were two adult Hispanic women, armed with a handgun, and driving a dark colored SUV.
Papini told authorities that her captors were two Hispanic women who had a handgun and were driving in a dark SUV, Bosenko said.
Numerous Hindu and Christian girls in Pakistan have been abducted, compelled to convert to Islam and then subsequently forced to marry their captors.
In the show, she plays Moira, a powerful, fighting character who manages to escape her Gilead captors and join the Canadian refugee resistance.
Papini said her captors dropped her off on the side of County Road 17, where a truck driver saw her and called police.
Some of the children born of enslaved Yazidis and their ISIS captors are in orphanages or accepted by local families, aid workers say.
For the authorities, one of the most confounding aspects of the sex trade is that Nigerian trafficking victims almost never denounce their captors.
Under interrogation, Mr. Afari told his captors how the group had weaponized sulfur mustard and loaded it into artillery shells, the officials said.
"I was told: a plane en route from Ukraine to Istanbul was seized, captors demand landing in Sochi," Putin says in the film.
You have to be of the highest priority to have your ransom purchased, and even then the escape from your captors rarely works.
His Kurdish captors did not comment on his story, but Iraqi authorities are generally skeptical of fighters who say they had no choice.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was believed by his captors to be a senior Qaeda operative who might have information that could save American lives.
Majum said she was "grateful" her captors did not harm her during a joyful reunion with her parents, Mujum and Florence on Wednesday.
A father was tortured in front of his 3-year-old son until his wife in New Jersey paid $22,2000 to his captors.
The father was, in fact, a prisoner of war whose captors showed him the bodies of children who had died in the raid.
The husband and wife told the news outlet that they are already publicly talking about the experience so their captors will face justice.
But many found themselves suspected as traitors or ideological termites, sent back by their Communist captors to hollow out American society from within.
Emerging from a room at the Toronto airport — where the children, all born in captivity, met their Canadian grandparents for the first time — Mr. Boyle denounced his captors in brief remarks to reporters and gave more details of their horrific ordeal, including the rape of his wife and that the couple had a fourth child, who was killed by their captors.
The captors also beheaded the American aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, previously known as Peter, as well as two Britons and a Japanese hostage.
When she thanked Paula, one of the captors, for helping her and Maggie, knowing it'd get under her skin in just the right way.
"Shortly after being kidnapped and raped for the first time, I realized that my captors could take just about everything from me," she said.
A gay friend of theirs had been executed three months earlier, and they believed he gave their names to his captors before he died.
His captors bundled him into a coffin, drove to a hideout and held him for two weeks before his family paid a $20.5m ransom.
But even more remarkable in this heart of darkness are the selfless acts of mercy by strangers who help the women elude their captors.
Now free, he works to exact revenge on his captors, adapt to the new world that he finds himself in, and rebuild his kingdom.
He said his captors only released him to traffickers for the Mediterranean crossing after he convinced them his family had no money for ransom.
In the second video, which was released in June, the two re-iterate their plea for a prisoner exchange on behalf of their captors.
But a WikiLeaks cable later revealed Fowler, a Canadian diplomat, was released after his captors were paid by Canada, the Globe and Mail reported.
Eventually the heiress came to identify with her captors and joined them in their crime sprees, until she was captured and deprogrammed in jail.
It's an almost literal blow-by-blow account of how Kunta Kinte's captors and then owners set out to demolish his sense of self.
The kidnappers managed to escape, the security official added, saying the troops wouldn't fire at the fleeing captors for fear of harming the hostages.
The film and TV series paint Patty as a woman who embraced her captors and then tried to manipulate the system during her trial.
She alleges she was told to keep driving and her two captors informed her they planned on sexually assaulting her before letting her go.
Alan Pulido, a Mexican soccer player playing for Olympiakos, was allegedly kidnapped over the weekend, only to escape by shooting one of his captors.
By the time they are seated as a jury, they are suffering from full-blown Stockholm Syndrome; they endeavor only to please their captors.
His captors sent him to Hanoi's notorious Hỏa Lò Prison, nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton," where he was held for five and a half years.
"We have remained devoted to this case and will not rest until Sherri's captor or captors are identified and brought to justice," Bosenko said.
They are treated for symptoms that prompted them to seek medical care, but are then unwittingly released back into the hands of their captors.
From a helicopter, captors shoot tranquilizer darts at the young elephants, and then maneuver the chopper to drive away the rest of the herd.
Boyle did not say whether the militants killed a child, only that his captors were responsible for "authorizing the murder" of his infant daughter.
Americans were 20% of those hostages, and half of those were killed by their captors, in part due to US policy toward hostage-takers.
After months of training, Ms. Amos said, she was finally able to escape her captors one day when they had assembled for evening preaching.
They were held for 52 days in Somalia in 2008 before their captors freed them, reportedly after a six-figure ransom had been paid.
The defense is also expected to argue that Sergeant Bergdahl has already endured profound consequences — the torture by his captors — for what he did.
Considering the solace and strength he took from these folded sheets of paper, it's a marvel his captors allowed him any mail at all.
She shouted at her Japanese captors and, with other inmates, organized a large-scale protest on the first anniversary of the March 1 Movement.
She was then led to a room where she was blindfolded, undressed and shocked with an electric prod as her captors asked about associates.
As Quell is interrogated, her captors attempt to shoot at her in an extreme test of both mind and body at the same time.
She rushed to a money-transfer kiosk to send the cash, and as the one-hour deadline approached, the captors urged her to hurry.
The captors also are accused of planning to sell these children; investigators still are trying to determine where these children came from, police said.
In a photograph that his captors sent to his family, Wasil is in a room with walls that appear to be made of mud.
Some people call me a human rights reporter because I put conditions at the remote prison under a microscope — for both captives and captors.
Boko Haram has abducted an unknown number of women and girls like Balaraba to be brutalized, raped and forced into service by their captors.
Just 15 when she was first trafficked and raped, she said her captors told her their actions were "halal," meaning permissible under Islamic law.
Through the little green eyes of Billy Pilgrim's Tralfamadorian captors, we see ourselves as mere human beings, mortal animals utterly stripped of our pretensions.
After a months-long ordeal across multiple illegal detention facilities, she was eventually released because her captors mistakenly thought their abuse had killed her.
In 1990, when the legendary freedom fighter emerged from his 27 years of prison, he was asked whether he had any resentment toward his captors.
Since her escape, Murad has stood up to her former captors by becoming a women's rights activist and by speaking out against the Islamic State.
Many are thought to have been sexually abused, and around 40 are said to have been forced into "marrying" their captors, according to the BBC.
While the video was sent to negotiators by their captors as a "proof of life," the government did not act on it at the time.
While she was confined, Huskins said she was tethered to a bed and twice raped, while her captors filmed it, according to the July filing.
Jackson said Wednesday that Papini told investigators she fought back against one of her captors, at one point slamming a woman's head into a toilet.
Though India protested at his "vulgar" display to the press, he was filmed clutching a cup of chai and praising his captors as "thorough gentlemen".
But, Susie ends up winning her captors over with her neighborhood girl charms, as she claims to be from the Rockaways, just like the criminals.
Baboons at the Vicennes Zoo (AP)The Vincennes Zoo in Paris was evacuated Friday morning after a group of 50 hostages revolted against their captors.
However, a Taliban commander in Pakistan with knowledge of the hostage family said U.S. drones flying in the area prompted their captors to move them.
" Hearst also took issue with Toobin's book citing one of its main sources as one of Patty's captors, and calling her abduction a "rollicking adventure.
Coleman also accused her captors of a "forced abortion," suspecting that they put poison in her food that caused her miscarriage of a baby girl.
The character has been shuffled from castle to castle, suitor to suitor, all the time being mistreated by her captors and isolated from her family.
Some, like the Quilombos in Brazil and Gaspar Yanga in Mexico ran away, while others such as Joseph Cinqué of the Amistad killed their captors.
Mr. Michel eventually escaped his captors on a death march between concentration camps, immigrated to the United States in 1946 and worked for Jewish causes.
Instead, the man whom the military supposedly wrestled from power was shown casually chatting with his captors, while protesters have posed for selfies with soldiers.
Mélida said that when her captors came to her house along the river, they drew her attention by saying they had soup in their canoe.
Then there were the countless times during her years of imprisonment that her captors beat her unconscious or tortured her with an electrified cattle prod.
Or were her captors, about whom Mr. Toobin has a lot of background information, partly stalling as they figured out what to do with her?
By the time Driver filmed his final scene — in which Garrupe, long unseen, staggers into view, starved by his captors — he was hallucinating from hunger.
Over the next four years, he would survive seven Nazi concentration camps by swapping sketches of his captors and their families for scraps of food.
In one work from this period, "WeiweiCam," Ai broadcast his quarters on 19213-hour webcam, reclaiming the violation of his own privacy from his captors.
That term is often used when hostages — or victims of any kind, including of relationships and of long novels — develop an identification with their captors.
The man, Magloire (Paul Hamy) gets to know his semi-captors, and particularly one of the women of the house, the enigmatic Drella (Lisa Hartmann).
In his book "Not Forgotten," Mr. Bae said his North Korean captors interrogated him up to 15 hours a day for the first four weeks.
Malotru, the French spy played by Mathieu Kassovitz, is somewhere in Syria after escaping his Islamic State captors with the help of a Russian mole.
Bamenda, Cameroon (CNN)One of the kidnapped female students freed in Cameroon said her captors warned her and other students not to return to school.
Synopsis: A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
When Boyle arrived back in Toronto in 2017, he told reporters his captors authorized the killing of one of his children and raped his wife.
Later that month, Dr. Mitchell testified, they had concluded that they wanted to stop because he was cooperating with his captors and divulging Qaeda secrets.
The killing of his evil captors in the final episode of "Breaking Bad" was one of the most satisfying and cathartic moments of the series.
Mainly, Koenig wants to understand what U.S. Army Sgt Bowe Bergdahl endured during his five-year captivity by the Taliban, and who his captors were.
Within weeks Patty Hearst joined her captors, who called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army, and was seen holding a machine gun during a bank robbery.
When the series returned, Ghost was behind bars as Tariq's captors released him — all while feeding him lies to further alienate him from his dad. Younger
Meanwhile, Paul and one of his captors (Romain Duris) form a kind of bond, though that doesn't keep Paul from trying to find a way out.
It's possible Siempre puts viewers through all of this racist hell to show Carmen eventually overthrowing her slave captors and the entire violent institution in Colombia.
In particular, the story of young Eli (Jacob Lofland) having his allegiances tested by his growing respect for his Comanche captors has a solid forward momentum.
But when the boy's mother (Michelle Williams) pleads with her father-in-law to pay, he refuses, even as the captors get more and more brutal.
A black man, Lafala, loses his legs as a result of his white captors' cruelty, then, in a striking allegory for reparations, receives a compensatory windfall.
The emotional heart of the story isn't evident until much later, when Red's squad is cornered and Zussman ends up in the hands of Nazi captors.
"I was told: a plane en route from Ukraine to Istanbul was seized, captors demand landing in Sochi," Putin said in the film seen by Reuters.
It's a form of Stockholm syndrome to not only start to like your captors, but look for reasons to blame the captivity on your fellow hostages.
The Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, native told ABC News she was beaten and sexually assaulted, sometimes as a result of trying protect her children from their abusive captors.
In the 20/20 special, Mueller's fellow hostages will detail their life in captivity, and reveal the abuse they suffered at the hands of their captors.
The police were summoned and eventually detained her alleged captors — roommates Thomas Barker, 32, and Steven Powers, 20, as well as another man, Joshua Holby, 31.
"June was named after the main character in The Handmaid's Tale, who also fled captors by hiding amongst trees," the organization wrote in a photo caption.
And so callous are the ISIS captors, he adds, that they have been known to execute Yazidi women judged too old to exploit as sex slaves.
Kadhr later sued the Canadian government for violating international law by allegedly not protecting him and conspiring with his US captors, who he says abused him.
His captors' actions were in retaliation for his "repeated refusal to accept an offer" from them, he said, without providing details on what the offer was.
But on some level I enjoyed having all the power in the dynamic; I was outnumbered, but my captors still needed something only I could provide.
The boat would be used as a "mother ship" by its captors to launch further attacks, Ali Shire, mayor of the town of Haabo, told Reuters.
Upon arriving at Toronto's Pearson International Airport in October, Boyle told reporters his captors authorized the killing of one of his children and raped his wife.
His German captors tortured him for days, waterboarding and pistol-whipping him repeatedly to try to get him to reveal the locations of his American colleagues.
That's what motivated us to try and connect with our captors, connect with the kidnappers, and get through the prison time and that sort of thing.
Since his 2014 murder by ISIS captors, disseminated worldwide in a grisly and raw piece of terrorist video propaganda, James Foley has become a household name.
Much of Benga's story has already been told from his captors' perspectives; here, Newkirk draws on historical documents to reconstruct his procurement, exploitation and tragic end.
Michael Obi was also kidnapped in 2011, when captors demanded $4 billion in ransom from Chelsea, the Premier League club where Mikel played at the time.
While Americans account for roughly one out of five Western hostages since 2001, they make up half of the hostages who were murdered by their captors.
His captors made political prisoners pull plows as if they were "human yaks," he said, and then beat them when they were too exhausted to work.
Forensic Oceanography located two migrants who had been in hiding ever since they escaped from their second set of captors, on the verge of being ransomed.
It remains unclear who abducted the hostages, but the military said they had been abandoned by their captors after the area was sealed off by soldiers.
TOKYO — Jumpei Yasuda, a Japanese freelance journalist who went missing in Syria in 2015, was freed from his captors on Tuesday, according to Japanese government officials.
A twenty-one-year-old Nigerian named John told me that he had witnessed female migrants being murdered for refusing the advances of their Libyan captors.
Boko Haram has left at least 225,21 people dead and has targeted girls, many of whom have been raped and forced into marriages with their captors.
Reports said police were led to the hideout by fingerprints left by her captors and CCTV footage showing them exchanging cars as they made their getaway.
His captors ordered him to contact any family he had in the United States, he said, and when he denied knowing anyone there, the beatings began.
The 56-second video shows the captives, who were blindfolded and wearing orange tunics, kneeling on the ground, their captors standing behind them in black balaclavas.
In the finale, after Walter White (Bryan Cranston) helped to kill his captors, Jesse hopped into Todd's (Jesse Plemons) El Camino and drove into the night.
After being interrogated, beaten and bayoneted in a foot, he was denied medical care until his captors found out he was the son of an admiral.
" The U.S. wasn'" going to pay a cent, for one, and allegedly sent word to captors that they were not too concerned with getting Bergdahl back.
The judge ignored the fact that Mobley's Yemeni captors hauled him before court without a lawyer for the first time after 20 months of forced disappearance.
Anna is a victim of her ­circumstances, controlled first by her husband and then by her captors, yet she is a rounded, active presence in the novel.
One of the masked men in the video had threatened to "do something terrible against these captives" if the captors' demands -- which included ransom -- were not met.
"On top of this, being two women [who Sherri described as her captors] is even more unique, so there remains a number of concerns that we have."
When Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) was kidnapped during Scandal's most bizarre plot line, her captors immediately introduced the possibility of sexual assault to keep her in line.
The messages indicate that if the ransom is not paid within 12 hours, her captors will sever some of Savannah's fingers or even disappear with her forever.
The informant said her captors then allegedly threw her body into a "gator pit" in a nearby swamp, to dispose of any evidence, according to Munoz's testimony.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A former Afghan provincial governor who was kidnapped in Islamabad this month was freed from his captors by Pakistani police on Friday, officials said.
The family says Toobin's sources for the book are sketchy ... notably Bill Harris, one of Patty's captors, and Steve Weed, her former fiance who himself was disgraced.
Meghan's training will include mastering micro-expressions, key words and other signals to let either her family or law enforcement know if she's under duress from captors.
The identity of his captors and his current whereabouts remain unclear, though a video from five weeks after his capture was released, showing Tice bound and blindfolded.
It was unclear what terms Saif's captors might have set for his release, and why they would have freed a prisoner seen as a major bargaining chip.
CNN Philippines reported that 10 people taken hostage while fleeing Marawi had escaped their Maute captors during an air strike on Monday and were in safe hands.
"Even if I tell you all the bad words in the world, that is not enough for them," Arnel Balbero, another Filipino sailor, said of his captors.
A significant hurdle to recovery for the California siblings and children in analogous situations, said psychologists, is that their captors were not stranger-kidnappers but their parents.
It is a style of detention that when put into practice in other portions of the prison years ago decreased friction between the captives and the captors.
The woman, who gave her name as Nora, said that in August they were held hostage until a family member in Houston transferred $2,200 to their captors.
"You have something very special in you," intones one of her dispassionate captors, presumably trying to extract it through the jumbo syringe he's jabbing into her arm.
Creating a world of weapons and warfare, Babydoll helps her friends Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish), Rocket (Jena Malone), Blondie (Hudgens), and Amber (Jamie Chung) escape their captors
Joshua Boyle told The Toronto Star that one of the captors said Trump was elected president before he was forced to film a "proof-of-life" video.
Lamiya Aji Bashar is adjusting to her new life in Europe after escaping IS captors who held her as a sex slave for two years in Iraq.
When the migrants fail to pay, they are held in grim living conditions, deprived of food, abused by their captors, and sold as laborers in slave auctions.
She recalls being told to get out of the van, uncover her eyes, and follow her armed captors into a large house and down into the cellar.
That is a recognized pattern, in which sex trafficking victims are pushed into new criminal jobs once they get older and make less money for their captors.
Daniela claims her captors once showed her a video of henchmen feeding body parts to a lion kept in a safe house in the city of Reynosa.
Over the last few weeks State Department officials at various levels, including Trump's envoy for hostage affairs, have been in touch with Sponaugle's captors to facilitate this release.
And it's during this imprisonment that Jaime's life is forever changed when his sword-fighting hand is cut off by his captors, leaving him weakened physically and mentally.
Did Breaking Bad fans need to know whether Jesse ever graduated from high school, or how his captors built the rig they used to keep him chained up?
It was cathartic to see Daryl knock off one of his captors, but it probably could have happened to someone less helpless and more vile than poor Joey.
"Whether or not I say that I forgive [my captors] will never make a difference to them, but it will affect me," the Where There's Hope author explained.
The new documentary claims Earhart became a captive in the South Pacific after her crash and claims her captors can be seen all around her in the photo.
The phone numbers were very important, because I was held captive a few times and had to pay my captors a ransom for them to let me go.
Endicott and her guide, Jean-Paul Mirenge Remezo, were taken near the border of the Congo where her captors used her cell phone to demand a $500,000 ransom.
Eventually his human captors managed to haul him into the pick-up—this time using a winch, so there was no chance of him landing another knockout blow.
Or had she fallen prey to "Stockholm syndrome", named after hostages in a Swedish bank siege in 1973 who sympathised with their captors—and become a genuine revolutionary?
There's no accurate estimate on how much money trafficking makes in the US, since victims are often guarded by captors, lack proper documentation, and work behind the scenes.
His condition improved when his captors started serving him boiled water and his cage was raised so they could put a latrine under it for him to use.
A few weeks later the Iranians broadcast a third video, in which Mr. Amiri returned to the story that he had been kidnapped, but had escaped his captors.
Papini said Sherri's captors pushed her out of a vehicle with a chain around her waist and a bag over her head on the day of her release.
Nonstop media coverage of the crisis brought the plight of the hostages and the revolutionary religious fervor of their Muslim captors into the homes of millions of Americans.
The captors made him wear a special bracelet, telling him that it would explode if he tried to escape or reach out for help, the military prosecutor said.
What you hear less of are the cases in which trafficked people are put to work in regular jobs, before their captors collect all the pay for themselves.
The British-accented captors tortured prisoners under their control, according to former hostages; Mr. Kotey is suspected of being a particularly brutal one whom the prisoners called George.
In prose of devastating simplicity Okeowo mines the moral complexity at the heart of Eunice and Bosco's story: the question of why abducted girls return to their captors.
A young revolutionary during the Tehran hostage crisis four decades ago, Ms. Ebtekar was a spokeswoman for the captors of the 2300 Americans held at the U.S. Embassy.
The cruelty of his Communist captors ensured he would never raise his arms above his head for the rest of his life, yet he survived, yet he endured.
In the current case, the school's principal, who remains with the captors had been kidnapped last week--and-let go, but told not to return to the school.
Marwell comprehensively recounts this case of justice denied, and how — helped by his wealthy family, loyal friends and Nazi sympathizers — Mengele succeeded in evading his would-be captors.
He didn't speak his captors' language, got almost no information of any kind from them, and had no way of knowing when or how he might be freed.
The cruelty of his communist captors ensured he would never raise his arms above his head for the rest of his life, yet he survived, yet he endured.
"In fact, certain US government officials indicated that help in the form of immigration relief would be forthcoming if he provided information on his captors" — which he did.
" Instead, she conjured images of nature's majesty and her Christian religious passion as poetic proof to her captors that, as she once said, "they can't confiscate your brain.
" She was allegedly interrogated while chained to a radiator; one smuggled video later showed her shouting at her separatist captors: "Your Russian authorities just want to kill me.
The video showing the living hostages features Robert Hall, the group's second Canadian hostage who, at the behest of his captors, made a direct plea to Prime Minister Trudeau.
So the film continues, in true horror film fashion, as the Tethered work to violently remove their unknowing captors, who are just doing their best to fight for survival.
That drew a risky rescue attempt by army helicopters, which swooped in to try to free the hostages as their captors then spirited them away in three separate boats.
But Nigeria's government has proven powerless to recover the girls, most of whom were Christian, and are believed to have been forced by their captors to convert to Islam.
Held in a remote valley, in a small single-room building surrounded by the Taliban, Joseph had been told by his captors the Americans were not coming for him.
Boyle told reporters soon after he, his wife and their three children returned to Canada on Friday that their captors had murdered a fourth child had raped his wife.
A video of a man believed to be a missing Japanese journalist in Syria has been posted online, in an apparent demand from his captors to the Japanese government.
His captors told him to admit to trying to overthrow the government, when he didn't, they threw him against a brick wall before rushing him back to his cell.
As the only nation in the Americas founded by former slaves who successfully fought for their freedom and overthrew their captors, Haiti exists as a counterpoint to colonial power.
It's not clear what prompted his kidnappers to carry out their threats, but a video released by the group shows Ridsdel's captors brutally beheaded him when the deadline passed.
At the Woodland Memorial Hospital in California after she was found, Papini gave Shasta County sheriff's investigators a "limited description" of the two women she said were her captors.
A British journalist captured by the R.S.F. in Darfur in 2016 said that he had been told by his captors that they were involved in smuggling people to Libya.
Police also said Herba told Ayling that her captors were part of a group called the "Black Death," and that they would auction her off on the Dark Web.
More than $300,000 in reward money was raised through efforts championed by Tibbetts' parents, who did countless television interviews, speaking directly to their daughter's captors, pleading for her life.
Stockholm Syndrome - where hostages or kidnap victims can develop a strong alliance with their captors - is a condition that has been identified by psychologists in a range of crises.
Earlier this year, a Facebook Live video showed a young Chicago man with special needs being bound, cut, kicked and taunted while his captors laugh and hurl racial insults.
Omar Khadr, 30, had sued the Canadian government for violating international law by allegedly not protecting its citizen and conspiring with his US captors, who he says abused him.
Outside the cave, people we can presume to be these men's captors use puppets and a fire to project images onto the cave wall for the prisoners to see.
Still, these questions matter because their uncomfortable answers suggest that we should endeavor at least to make our political leaders (perhaps more accurately our captors) more accountable to us.
Even for those, like Marwan and Lazem, who are lucky enough to be rescued from their ISIS captors, the path back to "normal" life is not an easy one.
The seven-member team was held for two days, with their captors threatening to burn them alive and throw their charred bodies into a nearby river, ministry officials said.
The common thread in many of these films were captive victims suffering unspeakable and sustained violence from their captors and being forced to torture each other or be killed.
They swore on a Quran to their captors they had accomplished their mission, and that they ran so fast to escape that they lost their hijabs on the way.
But it is nice to know that as a moral and a legal matter, not a practical one, the Guantánamo prisoners have a right that their captors cannot touch.
He was dehydrated, and his head throbbed, and when captors came by, banging a rod against the steel door and shining lights in his face, he begged for water.
After his captors blindfolded him and five cousins who had been hunting truffles with him, they seemed surprisingly eager to make sure their hostages knew who had seized them.
ISIS provided the correct number, one of several personal questions the group answered that convinced the Red Cross it was in fact speaking to her captors, Mr. Daccord said.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 65%Synopsis: In "You Were Never Really Here," Phoenix stars as Joe, a traumatized, reckless veteran who tracks down missing girls and violently apprehends their captors.
In their continuous efforts to infect us with despair and dissolve our attachment to our country, our North Vietnamese captors insisted the American government and people had forgotten us.
But no announcement was made by American military officials until Major Thorsness's return home in March 1973 out of fear that his captors would retaliate with even greater brutality.
General Sobejana identified the captors as members of the extremist Abu Sayyaf group, which has been blamed for a rash of high-profile kidnappings of foreigners in the past.
Mr. Wisnia, initially forced to collect the bodies of prisoners who committed suicide, had been chosen to entertain his Nazi captors when they discovered he was a talented singer.
Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian was held at the same prison for almost two years and has described being tortured with the constant threat of death from his captors.
She's trapped in the trunk of a car, and we actually meet her captors first as they drive merrily on their way convinced they've solved their Dex Parios problem.
Rezaian's captors didn't physically torture him, but they held him in solitary confinement with a light that never turned off and threatened to cut off his arms and legs.
Hostages from European countries, such as Austria, France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland, that are known to pay ransoms, are far more likely to be released by their captors than Americans.
As their captors sleep, Yondu and Rocket are trying to explain to Groot what it is that they need to get out — and he keeps bringing back the wrong things.
With tears running down his cheeks, Bitcha went down on his knees to demonstrate how his captors whipped him while forcing him to speak to his brother on a cellphone.
Rini claimed that he had been kidnapped and abused for years and recently escaped his two male captors, prompting a multistate search for suspects matching the descriptions he gave police.
As it should, because bringing back our girls and keeping in mind the horrors perpetrated against them by their captors, Boko Haram, is as important now as it was then.
The Mdewakanton Dakota Chief White Dog, one of the 38 Dakota men hung in the largest mass execution in US history, gave the catlinite pipe to one of his captors.
When their captors came to beat one of them, others would join in the wailing, so the noise was magnified to relatives listening on the other end of the phone.
More than $400,000 in reward money was raised through efforts championed by Tibbetts' parents, who did countless television interviews, speaking directly to their daughter's captors, pleading desperately for her life.
And unlike Rick, who openly lied to his captors and murdered them in cold blood, Negan walks away from a similar hostage situation with clean hands and a cleaner conscience.
The acknowledgement of negotiations with the captors follows reports in several local media outlets, including state-owned daily New Vision, that a ransom was paid before the two were freed.
A CNN spokesman said the network had obtained the video from a source "close to the negotiations" after it was sent to negotiators by their captors as "proof of life".
On its Twitter feed, METL Group quoted Dewji as saying he had "returned home safely", without providing more details about how he was freed or got away from his captors.
While Japanese media have previously reported that Yasuda was captured by terrorist organization al Nusra Front after entering Syria, there is nothing in the video that definitively identifies any captors.
They managed to make a break from the camp using the tunnel on April 15, 1944, but only 12 escaped gun fire from their captors, and 11 survived the war.
Another of the men, who identified himself as Robert Hall, another Canadian, said he did not know how much money their captors were demanding but he appealed for help quickly.
After the teen was shot, her captors allegedly took her body to one of the many alligator pits in the area, leaving it for the reptiles to devour, Munoz testified.
While some members of my party hate the fact that I am always freeing thralls and often slaughtering their captors, a few of them love the decision and support it.
It's important to remember, however, that their captors exert powerful physical, psychological and emotional control over victims, and attempting inappropriate interventions at the wrong stage of captivity may be harmful.
Quoting unnamed sources, the reports said the pair told magistrates they were beaten and left without food for days by their captors, and had managed to escape unaided on Friday.
There's also a clip of the robot repeatedly slipping on a metal bar placed under it by its human captors — but it keeps its feet under it with commendable alacrity.
A little more than three months after the kidnapping, the captors to whom she was closest died in a Los Angeles shootout that turned their hide-out into an inferno.
Far from willing participants, each girl said that the armed militants had forcibly tied the bombs to them — many times after they had refused to have sex with their captors.
The first widely reported kidnapping for cryptocurrency occurred in January 2015, when Ryan Piercy, a Canadian living in Costa Rica, was abducted and his captors demanded $500,000 worth of Bitcoin.
This new documentary seeks an answer and recounts her strange transformation with documentation of communication between Ms. Hearst and her captors, rare news coverage and footage of a police shootout.
In remembrance of our brave Jim, Steven, Peter and Kayla, let us treat their captors with the justice and humanity we would have wanted for our children and for ourselves.
SHARYA, Iraq (Reuters) - When Rosa, now 14, asked her Islamic State captors about her younger sisters Bushra, 12, and Suhayla, seven, she was told they had been killed for misbehaving.
Before her arrest, the Sri Lankan employee had reportedly said she was abducted, held for hours, sexually assaulted and threatened by captors who demanded that she disclose embassy-related information.
He and 33 other members of the Yazidi religious community, one of Iraq's oldest minorities, moved to the town's outskirts while their Islamic State captors were busy with the battle.
On why he was spared, Mr. Churchill speculated that his captors might have believed that he was related to Prime Minister Winston Churchill and could therefore be a bargaining chip.
She talked with me about kidnappings in the region, including that of her uncle, whose captors took him hostage for his motorcycle which they eventually returned to him, she said.
Bergdahl, who remains on active duty in a clerical job at a base in San Antonio, on Monday said he had tried to escape his captors up to 15 times.
In a proof-of-life video after their kidnapping, the three men had identified their captors as members of a dissident arm of the now disbanded Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at a cabinet meeting in the capital Abuja on Wednesday "announced that another Chibok schoolgirl had been found after she escaped from her captors," said the spokesman.
The woman told police that her captors decided to let her go after learning she had a small child — claiming they said they did not traffic mothers, according to the BBC.
Strapped down to a hospital cot where he was kept in captivity during the Vietnam War, grainy footage shows McCain's captors asking him to recite his rank and official number: 624787.
Price: Free This narrative-based puzzle game asks you to rearrange the panels of a noir-style comic book in order to ensure the main characters escape their would-be captors.
"There was no firefight because his captors abandoned him as troops approached," she said, adding the sailor was abducted with five others in November by militants who attacked a cargo ship.
Warmly accepted by her Nigerian captors, she's praised for her technological acumen, especially for developing the Accent, a tool that allows her to hack into other operating systems and control them.
The Russian authorities say she then escaped from her captors and slipped into Russia posing as a refugee; Lieutenant Savchenko said she was taken to Russia as a prisoner of war.
Caitlan Coleman, the American woman who gave birth to three children while held in Taliban captivity for five years, is claiming that her captors weren't the only people who abused her.
He made it as far as Libya, where he says he and other would-be migrants were held in grim living conditions, deprived of food, abused and mistreated by their captors.
A senior police official, speaking to a reporter on the condition of anonymity, said that the police tried unsuccessfully to establish contact with the captors, who never passed on any demands.
Some of those who had been inside the Ritz-Carlton reported that the captors spoke English to one another, which raised the possibility that M.B.S. had recruited foreigners to help him.
Madden told officers she was able to escape her captors, described as a male and female wearing ski masks, but they still had her 7-week-old daughter, Shaylie, Griffin said.
These highly intelligent recluses that seem prefer a lonely life in the wild, or if they're in an aquarium, one in which they can cleverly, constantly toy with their human captors.
Since escaping her captors in November 2014, she has become an advocate for the Yazidis, and for refugee and women's rights in general, as well as a campaigner against human trafficking.
In an epic scene that should have been soundtracked by "Run The World (Girls)," Emilia Clarke's Daenerys Targaryen emerged victorious — and totally naked — from a fire that engulfed her Dothraki captors.
"They told us if we didn't pay that they were going to kill us," recalled Christian, who said he was freed three days later after relatives wired money to his captors.
Many apes are traumatized, and even if they are eventually rescued they're "all goofed up," in the words of one specialist, having endured serious abuse at the hands of their captors.
A doctor at the nearest hospital and an American official tracking the situation said that up to 17 of the detainees had required medical attention because of abuse by their captors.
He was then frail and feverish, with two broken arms, a broken leg, a shattered knee and bayonet wounds, yet still resisting his captors even though the consequence was more beatings.
The sergeant also described five years of torture at the hands of his captors, including beatings with copper cables and other abuse that was made worse by his repeated escape attempts.
Bergdahl says he was tortured brutally during his years in captivity after trying to escape, but some other hostages have said their captors provided them with food, water, and medical attention.
The document he signed listed one aim of the abuse as to "replicate and exploit the 'Stockholm Syndrome,' " in which kidnapping victims come to trust and feel affection for their captors.
When police arrived at the scene, Rini, then 23 years old, told officers that he was Timmothy, and that he had escaped captors as a victim of sex trafficking, Glassman said.
CreditCreditTony Cenicola/The New York Times Eliza was fleeing her captors with her young son in her arms when she was stopped short by the banks of the frigid Ohio River.
Rini told investigators he had broken free of his captors and claimed he'd been physically and sexually abused, according to Ben Glassman, the US attorney for the southern district of Ohio.
I filled out forms with proof-of-life questions that only I would know in case I got kidnapped and my captors were to call the office and start making demands.
After dispatching many of his Scavenger captors and warning the remainder that they soon will get swept up in the conflict beyond their walls, Rick returns to his camp too late.
So much so that Stockholm syndrome, a peculiar phenomenon in which hostages develop positive feelings toward their captors, was named after a hostage situation that took place in Stockholm in the 1970s.
Some migrants who cannot pay their captors are reportedly killed or left to starve to death, and when migrants die or are released, others are purchased to replace them, the IOM said.
Two Canadians and a Norwegian are desperately pleading for their governments to listen to their Filipino Islamist captors, who've threatened to "do something terrible" if their demands aren't met within one month.
For nearly two years after 2012, Foley's captors demanded millions in ransom payments and moved the freelance journalist between prisons before he was beheaded in a video that was widely publicized online.
The book codifies some of that earlier backstory: he's a cocky-yet-earnest character who falls head-over-heels for Bria Tharen, a brainwashed pilgrim, and helps rescue her from her captors.
In a video of the family the Taliban released in 2016, as a proof-of-life, Boyle said his children had seen "their mother defiled" by the captors, reports The Washington Post.
On Wednesday a Bengal tiger in Arizona mauled one of its captors—Jonathan Kraft, a former Las Vegas illusionist who now serves as executive director of Keepers of the Wild Nature Park.
In fact, it can often be counter productive to raise a prisoner's profile, as it can increase leverage for the captors, understanding our government is under public pressure to bring them home.
The deputy, who has been with the sheriff's department for about six months, did not know her two alleged captors and was not in uniform at the time, according to the statement.
Separated from those who loved him, Lazem grew up learning Turkmen and Turkish, the languages of his ISIS militant captors, rather than his native Kurmanji, the Kurdish dialect spoken by his community.
On Wednesday, McCain, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam and was tortured by his captors, issued a statement urging his fellow senators to vote against Gina Haspel for CIA director.
Now, fearing for her deteriorating health, he hopes her captors will allow him to visit her just once, even if there is scant chance he will be able to take her back.
During one capture, when several orcas are corralled in a harbor, a thousand people show up to watch—"I was actually quite sad about the whole thing," one of the captors recalls.
They held Smart prisoner for nine months, before she was rescued after a stranger saw her with her captors and, recognizing them from an episode of America's Most Wanted, called the police.
All Mr. Gyatso had to do to end the torment, he said, was to agree with his captors that Tibet was historically a part of China, and that it should remain so.
I won't say what happens, but it feels pretty wrongheaded to suggest that abused women can probably save their broken male captors from themselves, if they'll just be kind to them. What?!
His World War I veteran status, along with a promise to his captors to leave Germany immediately, contributed to his release from the Dachau concentration camp at the end of January 1939.
As the song ends, viewers catch a glimpse of Jesse in his final appearance on the show, as he makes his escape from his neo-Nazi captors in a Chevrolet El Camino.
Within weeks, she stunned the world by announcing that she had joined forces with her captors and was seen wielding a machine gun as the group robbed a bank in San Francisco.
Three were released, while the remaining five were probably brought by their captors to the southern Philippine province of Sulu, said Lieutenant General Cirilito Sobejana, chief of the military's Western Mindanao Command.
On March 12, 2003, after two witnesses recognized the perpetrators from "America's Most Wanted," police found Smart walking down the street with her captors in Sandy, about 18 miles from her home.
The images below aren't all happy ones — two in particular highlight the grim conditions some animals face at the hands of their captors — but they're all incredibly powerful in their own way...
Back then, El Flaco, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, was beaten, blindfolded and taken to a house near Mexico City where his captors threatened to kill him.
Coppola's central idea traces the various ways that women of the era were imprisoned by social expectancies, by turning the women hiding out at the plantation into captors of a Union soldier.
McCain, the unsuccessful 2008 Republican presidential nominee, was shot down during the Vietnam War and tortured by his North Vietnamese Communist captors during more than five years as a prisoner of war.
All seems to be going well until the two are drugged and abducted by a group of locals, forcing them to overcome their differences and work together in order to escape their captors.
Using the initials of North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, KCNA said the man had told his captors "he illegally entered the DPRK under the manipulation of the CIA".
A 20-year-old British model was kidnapped, stuffed in a suitcase and held hostage for nearly a week as her captors planned to sell her in an online auction, Italian police say.
Early on, there's a scene that's disturbing in its familiarity, when Ara — whose full name is Sarangerai — tells her aunt about how her captors shortened her name because they couldn't pronounce it properly.
Lawyers for the journalist alleged that he had been subject to violence during his abduction and that his captors stuffed 10,000 euros ($11,250) into his pockets before he was taken across the border.
His government captors put bombs in his throat and give him 24 hours to enter New York and rescue America's president, who crash-landed there after a terrorist attack on Air Force One.
When private investigator Bill Garcia heard Keith's account of seeing his wife Sherri for the first time after her release by captors, Garcia thought immediately the abduction was the work of sex traffickers.
She not only escaped her Dothraki captors, but also brought the house down – literally – with an epic fire-goddess scene that reminded everyone the Mother of Dragons is not to be trifled with.
She convinces her captors that that she's harmless and may in fact be able to establish a mutual partnership with Alexandria, and then Tara asks the big question: where are all the men?
Some said they were tortured in order to blackmail their parents into paying the captors, but even when the money arrived they were forced to work for no pay, or sold, said Maizoumbou.
The chief of the general staff, Hulusi Akar, who was held hostage by the coup plotters, has testified that one of his captors offered to put him on the phone with Mr Gulen.
Also the scene where she runs away, thinking she's going to be helped, and then, in the rhythm of a nightmare, you realize, no, she's essentially just run right back to her captors.
They did not speak the language of their captors, who foisted a religion upon them -- complete with a white god -- and preached that black people were inferior and doomed to slavery in perpetuity.
Then, when his captors feared the location of the site might become public, he was transferred in late 2628 to another secret facility, believed to be in Poland, and subjected to further torture.
In this case, it's breeding a strain of vampire-like creatures, who will suck the life out of their human captors -- the ones who've been experimenting on them -- if given half a chance.
The women — Konstanze, a Spaniard, and Blonde, her English servant — in particular have sympathy and even love for their captors, while just a kind of wary affection for their liberators, Belmonte and Pedrillo.
As indignant as he is when he describes his brutal treatment (beatings and torture were frequent, as was extreme isolation), he also frequently speaks of his understanding of his captors' virulent anti-Americanism.
As it is, Americans are twice as likely to die in captivity by their captors while countries who pay ransoms — Germany, Spain, France, Austria, and Switzerland — are more likely to have hostages released.
He spent five months in solitary confinement and a time under house arrest before being returned to Hong Kong on bail, where he defied his captors to tell the world what had happened.
In a video released by the military in Pakistan after Mr. Boyle's release, Mr. Boyle, sitting beside an exhausted looking Ms. Coleman and their children, repeatedly insisted that their captors were not Muslims.
During a court hearing on Wednesday, several of the women told a three-judge panel that they had been tortured and sexually harassed by their captors, said Yahya Assiri, the director of ALQST.
His captors, on the other hand, were consumed with another matter: finding the link between Ho, Giap and the other "treasonous elements" on the Revisionist Anti-Party Affair that threatened Le Duan's war.
The soldiers rescued Allan Arthur Hyrons and Welma Paglinawan-Hyrons, a married couple, after they were abandoned by their captors early Monday after days of clashes on the southwestern Philippine island of Jolo.
"When he was out of solitary (his captors) wouldn't give him a Bible, so he would come up with verses from memory that they could study together," Black recalled in an interview Wednesday.
His captors did not give him blood pressure medicine that he had been prescribed since high school, and he has developed pulmonary and respiratory issues that persisted after his release, the judge wrote.
MANILA (Reuters) - Soldiers in the southern Philippines rescued a British man and woman from members of an Islamist militant group, the army said on Monday, after their captors fled during a military operation.
Cusick, however, makes clear that the loud-music tactic displays a chilling degree of casual sadism: the choice of songs seems designed to amuse the captors as much as to nauseate the captives.
McCain, the unsuccessful 2008 Republican presidential nominee, was shot down during the Vietnam War and tortured by his North Vietnamese captors during more than five years in captivity as a prisoner of war.
Velosa recalled that his captors identified themselves as members of ELN, accused the journalists of spying on their activities and traveling in the region without permission, and forced them to surrender their equipment.
McCain, the unsuccessful 2008 Republican presidential nominee, was shot down during the Vietnam War and tortured by his North Vietnamese Communist captors during more than five years in captivity as a prisoner of war.
"She had multiple men brought in to have sex with [the girl] while her captors collected the money," Assistant District Attorney JoAnne Musick said at a hearing on Monday, according to the Houston Chronicle.
For nearly two years, as James Foley's captors demanded millions in ransom payments and moved the freelance journalist between prisons, Diane Foley set up as many meetings as she could with national security officials.
It reminded me of a kind of torture I had read about where afterward the captors returned your senses to you one by one, and you felt so grateful that you told them everything.
Another scene shows the moments before the torture of Paul Marshall Johnson, an American engineer; his captors are convinced that he knows more about American activity in Saudi Arabia than he is letting on.
Their actions — which involve bloody payback on Lucie's former captors and the uncovering of a looney-tunes cult — are frequently so nonsensical that their many and varied torments become the movie's de facto point.
In the end, Úrsula's downfall is nothing short of tragic: one of the few survivors of the drug war, she is not even "worth the bullet" it would take her captors to kill her.
Other young people were forced to become child soldiers, according to a report by the U.N. Mission in South Sudan, which said that many of those abducted remain in the hands of their captors.
Han is able to break free from his captors and superiors, but Qi'ra goes the opposite way, aiming to go straight to the top of the criminal underworld, where she can call the shots.
It's an accomplished "parody" of clips published by engineering company Boston Dynamics, showing a CGI replica of the firm's Atlas robot getting kicked, hit, and shot at, before turning the tables on its captors.
Just imagine for a moment: Your bitter, now-murderous adversary has you at spear-point, your mom is minutes from being killed by her captors and you are making a final plea for sympathy.
"We have reached out to their captors, through local and international intermediaries, and we are ever ready to do everything within our means to ensure the safe release of all the girls," he said.
In 2016, an Uber driver helped rescue an underage girl who was about to be trafficked in California by alerting police after she got in his car with her alleged captors, the company said.
Different from the ISIS of today that is gleeful about slaughtering innocents, even children, my captors seemed to hold some respect for human life or surely they would have shot us on the spot.
Her daughter, Elizabeth, is one of an estimated 195 girls still held captive by the jihadist group, which has tried to force some of them to convert to Islam and to marry their captors.
Repeated within the kaleidoscopic texture, the line "My name is Daniel Pearl, I'm a Jewish American from Encino, California" seemed to swirl in space, freed from the coercive narrative Mr. Pearl's captors had created.
Unwitting American bombers attacked and sank the boat near Subic Bay; my grandfather swam to shore with a wounded prisoner in tow, then returned twice to the wreckage to rescue others, including his captors.
The captors of Mosul must also be prepared to assess the statements of residents, as locals may aim to settle scores themselves and please the new authorities with denunciations of ISIS, true and false.
The witness, a Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar, told of being beaten and starved by gun-toting captors on the boat that ferried him and more than 200 others to a trafficking camp in Thailand.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. sailors who blundered into Iranian waters in January divulged sensitive information to their captors while held at gunpoint by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S. Navy report said on Thursday.
Several migrants said they were tortured with electric shocks and one, Nigerian Efosa Idehen, said Ackom, was "one of the most terrible" of the captors, often electrocuting him by attaching electrodes to his tongue.
On a questionnaire handed to prisoners by their British captors, he said nothing about Auschwitz, he told Mr. Rees in 2005, telling them that he had worked for an SS administrative office in Berlin.
For those who take them into custody, hostages are commodities and they are released as part of a quid pro quo or part of a process in which their captors get something in return.
" Standing in front of what appeared to be debris and burned buildings, he said of his captors, "They do not ask for anything, Mr. President," adding: "For all we know this is their place.
I feel talking to people that people are becoming — there's almost a Stockholm syndrome issue where they feel like these companies are our captors and they can do whatever they want to us. Exactly.
"Torments will ope your lips," boasts one of Iago's captors, and we onlookers, mired in our imperfect humanity, share that craving to see Iago's soul cracked open so he can pour forth his secrets.
"Given the lack of evidence with regards to charges brought against him, it was a high risk for his captors to keep him in prison while his health deteriorated," he wrote in an email.
That man, Brian Michael Rini, 23, had shown up in a Kentucky neighborhood Wednesday, claiming he had fled for two hours from his captors, and identifying himself as the missing Illinois boy Timmothy Pitzen.
This is, of course, a game—a megagame, to be precise—and the governor, her captors, the press and generals who deny all knowledge are among 600 real players participating from around the world.
"The President of the Republic has learned with great satisfaction about the release of our compatriot who was abducted in eastern Chad and then taken by his captors to Sudan," it said in a statement.
In the novel, Qi'ra is far more calculating: she sees Han as a way to escape from Corellia and their captors, and she begrudges having to owe him a favor as they make their escape.
The Daily Beast online news organization said on Tuesday it had obtained the new video, which depicted Coleman saying her captors were threatening to kill the family if Taliban prisoners were executed in Afghan jails.
"The first time they sold me for 100,000 CFA francs ($170)," said Ousmane Bah, a 21-year-old from Guinea who said he was sold twice in Algeria by unknown captors and worked in construction.
Their militant Islamist captors released a video on Monday showing some of the remaining girls - who were kidnapped from the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok - appearing to relish their new life and disavow their old.
And even if I do not know a specific leader, our team specializes in initiating relationships and finding ways for captors to save face or see gains in the release and return of the prisoner.
Elizabeth Smart -- famously kidnapped and held captive for 9 months when she was 14 -- is speaking out about the pending release of one of her captors ... and she's taking extreme measures to protect her family.
The chief of the general staff, who was held hostage by the plotters, has testified that one of his captors offered to put him on the phone to the cemaat's Pennsylvania-based leader, Fethullah Gulen.
Three years on, the traumatized Yazidi is finally free of her captors, but remains trapped in a living nightmare, fearing the ISIS militants could still get to her, or worse, kill members of her family.
The Doha-based channel said in a news report on its website that correspondent Hamdi Al-Bokari, cameraman Abdulaziz Al-Sabri and driver Moneer Al-Sabai were released by their captors, whose identity remains unclear.
The problem is that, as some AI researchers believe, perfectly isolating a sufficiently advanced AI is next to impossible since it would be able to persuade its human captors to release it into the wild.
Kenneth Bae says his North Korean captors interrogated him up to 15 hours a day for the first four weeks of his incarceration and yelled with impatience until he wrote a confession to their liking.
Yasuda, who arrived home in Japan on Thursday from more than three years of what he called physical and psychological "hell", told the Asahi Shimbun daily that his captors accused him of being a spy.
They said that they have a line of communication with people claiming to be her captors who are demanding a ransom — said to be as high as 9 million euros — in a cryptocurrency called Monero.
As many as 17 people detained in the anti-corruption campaign have required medical treatment for abuse by their captors, according to a doctor from the nearest hospital and an American official tracking the situation.
And I knew that the request was justified, because he had connections in this milieu, these Islamo-terrorist circles, and he might be able to give his captors some ideas of how to improve security.
One of the released men said his rebel captors had told him to pass a message to foreign oil companies to stop operating in South Sudan because oil revenues were being used to fund war.
And he staged several emotional moments with invited guests sitting in the first lady's box, including the parents of Otto Warmbier, who died after being returned to the United States by his North Korean captors.
Mr. Burger recalled during a radio interview in Prague that another prisoner had wanted to drag out the counterfeiting of dollars but that their captors told them to proceed quickly or face a firing squad.
Most recently in "Book of the Stranger," she smiled with satisfaction as she watched her Dothraki captors burn to death: Another person who loved burning his enemies to death was Dany's father, the Mad King.
The circumstances of his detention in North Korea and what medical treatment he may have received there remained a mystery, but relatives have said his condition suggested that he had been physically abused by his captors.
In the series' excellent second episode, David, a powerful but thoroughly unhinged mutant who can theoretically alter reality, has escaped his government captors with the help of his girlfriend Syd (Rachel Keller) and other powerful mutants.
But the raids over the past year have also freed hundreds of women and girls, including Fati, who was picked up by the Cameroonian army after her captors defected and tried to flee across the border.
Images of Nigerian woman Rifkatu Ayuba overcome as she recognized her teen daughter, Saratu, in a "proof of life" video produced by her captors -- and obtained exclusively by CNN -- prompted renewed outrage over the 2014 kidnappings.
After Drexel was allegedly shot, Brown said her captors allegedly wrapped up her dead body, took it out of the stash house and threw her remains in an alligator pit in a nearby swamp, Munoz alleged.
Any fears we might have for Whitlock's safety are dispelled when we discover the identity of his captors: "The Future," a garrulous, genteel, kinda funny-lookin' group of Communist screenwriters clad in 50 shades of beige.
Elizabeth -- famously held captive by Barzee and Brian David Mitchell for 9 months when she was 14 -- is PISSED one of her captors is hitting the streets and she's taking extreme measures to protect her family.
Mr. Henin had previously revealed that one of their most brutal and sadistic captors was Mehdi Nemmouche, a Frenchman with links to the Islamic State who had killed four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.
He refused his captors' offer to release him early from the "Hanoi Hilton," an infamous prison camp, shortly after his father was appointed commander of U.S. Pacific forces, depriving the North Vietnamese of a propaganda victory.
Under the pressure of a siege, the fellowship between hostages and captors acquires a new intensity, and both parties display a deep mistrust of the authorities on the outside, especially the commissioner of police (Christopher Heyerdahl).
He seems physically too fragile to withstand the horrors of being shackled on a slave ship where he and his fellow prisoners row to an incessant, booming drumbeat as their captors stand over them with whips.
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - The leader of one of Cameroon's main opposition parties was released by his captors on Saturday after being abducted by unidentified gunmen in the country's restive Anglophone region a day earlier, his party said.
To escape captivity in Vaes Dothrak, Daenerys used her resistance to fire to both kill her captors and win over the remaining Dothraki people, who kneeled down to her as she emerged from the flames unscathed.
He was able to escape his captors after the Federal Police intercepted a car that was taking him to a second safe house, but he decided not to report the kidnapping given concerns over his safety.
Every time there was a hurricane warning in Guantánamo Bay, Salahi dreamed that the storm had wiped away the prison camp, and everyone, detainees and captors alike, was "fighting side by side to survive," he wrote.
Houthi authorities and affiliated popular committees were responsible for disappearances and the report cited the testimony of former detainees saying that their Houthi captors had tortured, raped and inflicted other forms of sexual violence on prisoners.
Before the discovery of the truck in Xalapa, the capital of the oil-rich state, authorities found the body of another man, who apparently had been killed as he tried to flee his captors, Yunes said.
I had, in my two days here, noticed that Tasking folks were dressed as well as the free coloreds, perhaps even better, as though their captors sought to conceal the chains by which they were bound.
Mother overcome by proof of life video Images of a broken Rifkatu Ayuba who recognized her daughter, Saratu, in the video produced by her captors -- and obtained exclusively by CNN -- prompted renewed outrage over the 2014 kidnappings.
The husband of Sherri Papini, the California mom who mysteriously vanished earlier this month, has described the brutal condition she was in the first time he saw her after her release by her captors on Thanksgiving Day.
Ma said he speaks limited English and did not know from minute to minute if he would live or die as he was forced to travel 400 miles with his captors and they fought over his fate.
Furious women stumble and embrace revenge (Practical Magic, The Craft), flee their male captors on a wild journey through unfamiliar terrain (Mad Max: Fury Road), and beat up the boys with the best of them (Preacher's Tulip).
Memories of that fateful April night were surely not far from their minds and one could only imagine the trauma they endured at the hands of their Boko Haram captors -- one of the world's deadliest terrorist groups.
Boys brainwashed by captors Lazem is still young enough that he may one day forget the worst of his ordeal at the hands of ISIS, but for other, older children like Marwan, that may prove more difficult.
But any bravado had disappeared well before Nashiri's CIA captors strapped him naked to a hospital gurney in a windowless white cell and began pouring water into his nose and mouth until he felt he was drowning.
After addressing his family, he says, "I have to say something to my country," then reads several cryptic sentences from a piece of paper — a threat from his captors, perhaps, or a plea for help, or both.
Not to worry, though: While Dany's captors were roasted alive, Dany herself emerged from the flames unscathed, much like she did when her dragons were born in the first place, all the way back in season one.
He was kidnapped in 2012 while covering the Syrian civil war, held hostage for 20163 months and brutally murdered in 2014 by members of the Islamic State in an execution filmed by his captors and released online.
MANILA — A Dutch hostage held by Muslim militants in the southern Philippines for seven years was killed by his captors on Friday as he tried to escape during a bloody rescue attempt by the military, officials said.
For hosts like Dolores, freedom and the power of self-awareness also means taking responsibility for your choices, and her desire to get to "the weapon" and use it against her former captors has obliterated her conscience.
Upon their liberation from the camp, Prany and Vang seek revenge on one of their captors: He grabbed the interrogator's hair and pushed his head down and began to stab him in his side above his belt.
" When Buki reveals that, in preparation for flight, she has been stealing food from their captors, Maryam notes, "To anyone observing us from above we would have seemed lost and insignificant, but to ourselves we were champions.
A 32-year-old woman from the Comoros said a smuggler had taken her to a Libyan farm, where she was repeatedly raped over a week before her captors eventually allowed her to get on a boat.
At the conclusion of the first season, two hosts — one created in the mold of a virginal farm girl, the other a seasoned madam — seem to become self-aware and lead a revolt against their human captors.
They could be the difference between Sadhna continuing to be trapped in a private sex trafficking network or beginning a new life, where she can pursue a career and life outside the violent control of her captors.
Mexican international and Olympiacos striker Alan Pulido was kidnapped Saturday night in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas state, and managed to call police and alert them to his location after a scuffle with one of his captors.
UNITED NATIONS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Iraqi Yazidi woman held as a sex slave by Islamic State militants says her advocacy for other victims has left her completely exhausted and frustrated that her captors have not faced justice.
Related: Why a Secretive Group of Western Investors Are Bullish on Business in North Korea He said his North Korean captors repeatedly taunted him and told him that nobody in the US was working to secure his release.
The captors took her to a small home in Turin where she was handcuffed to a wooden chest of drawers for six days before she was taken to the British consulate in Milan, authorities said in the statement.
The Pakistani army has indicated that the captors were tracked shortly after entering from Afghanistan, although it remains unclear whether the family were kept in Afghanistan for all five years, or in Pakistan for some of the time.
Used alternately as servant and soldier, he was taught ISIS' radical interpretation of Islam and dispatched to the frontline of ISIS' war, where his captors placed him front and center during battle -- common practice for Yazidi child soldiers.
A Dutch wildlife photographer held hostage by Abu Sayyaf since 2012 was killed last month by his captors when he tried to escape during a firefight with troops, according to the military, which said six rebels were killed.
Baird finds himself kidnapped, which sets the plot in motion, but it's what happens once he discovers the identity of his captors (which I dare not spoil here) that makes everything that happens to him so daffily enjoyable.
"Our captors are terrified of the thought of their own mortality approaching and are saying that they will take reprisals on our family," he said, according to a transcript of the video released by the SITE Intelligence Group.
A confrontation erupted when Mr. Khashoggi saw his captors, the official said: The men stopped him from fleeing, punches were thrown, Mr. Khashoggi screamed and one of the men put him in a chokehold, strangling him to death.
Japanese media confirmed Yasuda's identity through his family, and while it had been reported that Yasuda was captured by terrorist organization al-Nusra Front after entering Syria, there is nothing in the video that definitely identifies any captors.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 22%Summary: In the action movie "Miss Bala," Gloria (Gina Rodriguez) goes to the police after her friend is abducted from a Mexican nightclub, only for the cops to turn her into the same captors.
On Sunday, a group of national and local police officers were able to pull off a rescue mission and place her 6 captors under arrest -- 5 of whom were on the Zulia state police force, according to BBC.
By the end of the Wells-Masons' conversation, Georgia realizes Will now has a new life partner — Gloria (Balindile ka Ngcobo), whom viewers are led to believe is one of Will's captors for most of Widow — and a baby.
The IOM said it had spoken to one Senegalese migrant who was held in a Libyan's private house in Sabha with about 100 others, who were beaten as they called their families to ask for money for their captors.
He is a 23-year-old from Medina, OH. He identified himself as Timmothy to law enforcement and alleged that he'd escaped from two captors who'd been holding him for seven years, most recently at a Red Roof Inn.
We hear from the captives, of course, as well as their family and friends; plus, the law enforcement tasked with negotiating the situation; the media that covered the crisis (via archival news footage) — and, most fascinatingly, the captors themselves.
Smart was abducted from her home on June 5, 2002 when she was 14 years old and spent the next nine grueling months held prisoner as she was starved, drugged, raped and subjected to bizarre rituals by her captors.
American Amir Hekmati -- released after years of imprisonment as part of the U.S.-Iran prisoner swap in January -- is claiming he experienced electric shock, forced drug withdrawal and other forms of torture at the hands of his Iranian captors.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A group of Lithuanian men trafficked to Britain to work on chicken farms have won a landmark civil case against their captors, in the first ruling against a British firm sued for modern slavery offences.
The images of the 10 sailors, kneeling on the deck of one of the boats under the watchful eye of gun-toting Iranian captors, quickly became a talking point for Republicans, especially in their presidential debate on Thursday night.
During his trip to the stash house, described as a place where Taylor and others hung out, Brown said Drexel ran out of a room but was allegedly "pistol-whipped" by her captors and taken back inside, Munoz testified.
BAMENDA, Cameroon (Reuters) - Children kidnapped by gunmen in western Cameroon said their captors had warned them not to go back to school, recounting their ordeal as parents on Thursday packed up belongings from a boarding school now being shuttered.
But I didn't expect to be told to see the President snatch a machine gun from his captors and mow them down — then tell your character that sometimes you can't do what's popular, you have to do what's necessary.
So it was beyond strange to watch Carol play the weak counterpoint to her fellow female captors this episode in a dose of brilliant acting from Melissa McBride, who manages to keep viewers' heads spinning throughout the entire exchange.
He served our country with valor, risking his life in combat, and when he was a prisoner of war being tortured in the "Hanoi Hilton," risking his life again by refusing early release when his torturing captors offered it.
Family members said that last year he had made contact with the family, calling from an Afghan telephone number and urging them to cooperate with his captors, who were demanding the release of several militants held in Pakistani jails.
Held in isolation for most of his captivity, once his captors learned he spoke fluent Farsi, Metrinko worked his body and mind furiously to remain sharp; he never ceased to better understand his circumstances and prepare for all contingencies.
Residents of the small village which the kidnapped workers came from — Al-Herda in the Nile Delta province of Kafr el-Sheikh — earlier said that three of the hostages had escaped their captors but their whereabouts were not known.
The Canadian government has to "do what is necessary to get us out of here soon," said one of the Canadians, Robert Hall, as his countryman, John Ridsdel, screamed while his neck was twisted by one of the captors.
The effort to rescue James Miller, the last hostage still being held by those American ICO sympathizers, goes south, as does the attempt to use captured ICO leader Yusuf Al Ahmadi, to persuade the captors to let Miller go.
Sergeant Bergdahl, 29, was tortured by his Taliban captors for nearly five years before he was swapped in May 2014 for five Taliban detainees at Guantánamo Bay in a deal approved by President Obama but harshly criticized by Republicans.
On a recent call with our FBI field agent and Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell family engagement person, we were told that despite the freeing of Raqqa and Mosul from ISIS control, there is no new information regarding Jim's captors.
On Wednesday, he emerged, agitated and bruised, along a Newport, Ky., street, seeking help from passers-by and saying that he was Timmothy, the missing boy, and that he had escaped from captors and was trying to get home.
The narrative meat of his side journey with Rick is ultimately spoiled by Henry's return as well; Morgan succumbs to a more brutal side of himself when he coldly murders the Savior captors that had Rick on the ropes.
"Once trafficked women and girls gave birth to a baby, they were sometimes able to escape their captors, but usually at the cost of leaving their child behind with little hope of seeing the child again," the report said.
But the hostages — Luke Somers, an American photojournalist, and Pierre Korkie, a South African teacher who was being held with him — were killed by their captors when they realized that a rescue attempt was underway, United States officials said.
DAKAR, Senegal — A video released in Nigeria on Monday by Boko Haram purports to show girls among those abducted in 2014 from a school in the town of Chibok vowing to stay with their captors and never go home.
After months and even years of hardship, former detainees often say they found themselves boarding a U.S. plane and flown out of the country less than an hour after being told by their captors that they were going home.
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea will deport a U.S. citizen detained since October after he entered illegally from China and told his captors he was manipulated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the North Korean state news agency reported on Friday.
MANILA (Reuters) - When the deadline for his ransom passed this week, Canadian John Ridsdel was beheaded by his captors, the Abu Sayyaf, whose network in the Philippines is only gaining in strength thanks to vast sums earned from kidnappings that pay.
Racial divisions among the inmates at Litchfield escalate to greater heights than ever before, but when they lose one of their own to a young C.O.'s chokehold, the women unite in an uprising against their captors, against all odds.
Over 15 years ago, Smart wondered if a normal life and motherhood would ever be possible after she was kidnapped from her bedroom late one summer's night in 2002 and brutalized by her captors for nine months before being rescued.
American hostages are "more than twice as likely to remain in captivity, die in captivity, or be murdered by their captors as the average Western hostage," according to the report, which compiled data on 1,185 hostage cases from 2001 to 2016.
Knowing that they were at risk of being executed as spies, she convinced their captors that her commanding officer was a relative of UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill and that she was his wife and only in France at her urging.
Kimberly Endicott, 56, of Costa Mesa, California, and Jean-Paul Mirenge Remezo were freed from their captors with the help of the Uganda Police Force and sister security agencies, the Government of Uganda wrote in a statement shared on Twitter.
It is more often cited in the imprisonment of women - be it Californian heiress Patty Hearst or Austrian abductee Natascha Kampusch - and took its name from a botched Swedish bank siege, where captives bonded with captors during a six-day standoff.
MANILA (Reuters) - A Dutch photographer held hostage by Islamic State-linked militants in the Philippines since 2012 was killed on Friday by his captors when he tried to escape during a firefight on a remote southern island, the military said.
Even if a case manages to be brought in front of a Pakistani court, the victims are often pressured into saying that they left the religion of their ancestors and married their captors willingly, so that the case will be dismissed.
PARIS — Najim Laachraoui, one of the two suicide bombers who attacked Brussels Airport last month, has been identified by former Islamic State hostages as one of their captors in Syria, a lawyer for several of the hostages said on Friday.
Antonio M. Taguba, a senior Army investigator whose searing report into the abuses of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was a catalyst for the broader examination of the torture of prisoners in the hands of American captors.
When Irish convict Clare suffers unspeakable crimes at the hands of her British captors, she sets off to hunt down the perpetrators, but realizes she needs a local guide to help her through the bush inhabited by brigands, thieves and murderers.
They later invited the woman to another casino but she was instead taken to a hotel where she was mistreated and video of her was taken which her captors showed to her family with a demand for $180,000 for her release.
WASHINGTON — When the United States became aware late last month of a video showing an American woman and a Canadian man pleading to be saved from their Taliban captors, the government did something it had not done well in the past.
When guerrillas take diva, fan and assembled guests in formal wear hostage, in an incident loosely inspired by the 1996 hostage crisis in Peru, the beauty of that voice becomes one of the elements that brings captives and captors closer together.
MEXICO CITY — Emma Theissen Álvarez says she will never forget the faces of the three men who came to her Guatemala City house that day in 259 looking for her daughter, a student leader who had escaped from her military captors.
Opinion Columnist Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the most celebrated, was his refusal to accept an early release from his captors.
Likewise, as Alton and his captors, or companions, take to the road (and "Midnight Special" is, among other things, a thoroughgoing road movie), Lucas, at the wheel, dons night-vision goggles, kills the headlamps, and powers on into the dark.
In the collection "Blackrobe: Isaac Jogues," from 1982, he evoked the tribulations of the proselytizing Jesuit missionary of the poem's title and his eventual death at the hands of his Mohawk captors in 1646 in what is now the Albany area.
The Sri Lankan government has insisted that evidence collected by its investigators did not support the sequence of events provided by the embassy that the woman had been abducted by captors who demanded she reveal unspecified information about the embassy.
October 11th Netflix description: Written and directed by Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, the Netflix Television Event El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie follows fugitive Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) as he runs from his captors, the law and his past.
Guantánamo is regularly invoked in terrorist propaganda precisely because of the enduring, albeit outdated, images of the facility's earliest days of Muslim men wearing orange jumpsuits shackled in open air cages, exposed to the elements, kneeling before their American military captors.
After months and even years of hardship, those released by North Korea said they found themselves boarding a U.S. plane and being flown out of the country less than an hour after being told by their captors that they were going home.
DAKAR, Senegal — A new crisis is emerging as the Nigerian military liberates droves of women and girls from their Boko Haram captors: Many of the newly freed are being rejected when they return to their communities, according to a report released Tuesday.
His wife, Jane Larson, told the newspaper she believed her husband was kidnapped and she appealed to his captors "to return him as soon as possible and show the mercy of Allah to unite an aging couple who have been apart too long".
In September, Smart opened up to PEOPLE about how she was "grateful for the small things" now, 16 years after she was kidnapped from her bedroom late one summer's night in 2002 and brutalized by her captors for nine months before being rescued.

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