"In Donetsk and Luhansk districts armed insurgents are out of control, attacking people at will, abducting and beating political activists and members of district electoral commissions and the police clearly have no control over them," said Yulia Gorbunova of Human Rights Watch, who is in the region.
"They're abducting women, raping, selling women and children in the market place.
Zimbabwean state security agents are notorious for abducting activists opposed to 91-year-old Mugabe's rule and later turning them over to the police.
Islamist extremists have been abducting girls to use as cooks and sex slaves.
Russia claims it detained an Estonian policeman for "intelligence gathering", but Tallinn has accused Moscow of abducting him.
Abducting a mother of 10, and disappearing her body for over 30 years is a crime.
Reynaldo Diaz is suspected of abducting her from Houston in 2007, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
In 2008 he was found guilty of abducting Lucie, of attempting to rape her and of dismembering and hiding the body; but not of killing her.
Yakubu Lame, Nigeria's minister of police affairs, said in July that 512 kidnappings had been reported in the first half of this year, against 353 for the whole of 2008.Not so bad if you're whiteAt the same time, the rate of abducting foreigners is going down.
The most disturbing thing is that most of them were reasonably positive about the experience.Of course some were severely traumatised, but the idea of abducting women for marriage has deep roots in this society.
Sitting by some potted plants, at a table laid with a starched white cloth, ex-General Nic van Rensburg and ex-Colonel Gideon Nieuwoudt said that they shot them dead after abducting them outside a hotel.
