The word "kidnapped" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who has been taken by force, usually for the purpose of holding them for ransom. Example sentence: The police are searching for the kidnappers who abducted the millionaire's daughter.
Those people who have cooperated with elections have received abusive phonecalls, physical threats and in some cases have even been kidnapped.
A social media campaign over the kidnapped girls has won global backing, with more than 1m tweets under the hashtag #bringbackourgirls.
The stranger offering scholarships was a woman named Godiya, a slim, quietly-spoken 27-year-old whose sister had been among the kidnapped schoolgirls.
"Their ancestors were kidnapped from us and taken against their will six centuries ago," the group's founder, Michael Freund, told the Jerusalem Post.
As troops fanned out in the town awaiting the arrival of Hawker Hunter jets to bomb and destroy civilian government, Allende desperately but vainly tried to contact Pinochet and for a few hours was convinced that his military commander had been kidnapped and silenced by the insurgents.
He cannot give up hope that his daughter and a girl they adopted – who was 16 and staying with the family when she too was kidnapped – survived.
Detectives suspect that the farm, owned by local businessman John Fowler, could be where the robbers initially took the depot manager Colin Dixon and his wife and son, whom they kidnapped in order to force him to cooperate.
Jonathan's relations with party members at times resembled a football coach antagonising his star players When Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in northern Nigeria, Jonathan failed to realise how much this would capture the public's attention, both locally and internationally.
As long as one person is still holding out a candle for the kidnapped, we haven't failed Oby Ezekwesili When asked if her pressure group made progress she said: "As long as one person is still holding out a candle for the kidnapped, we haven't failed.
It took two weeks for him to address the issue publicly, while his wife Patience was accused of melodrama smacking of insincerity when she met mothers of the kidnapped girls.
Whether the mafia has kidnapped you and made you kill a man with a gun to win your freedom or if you've done quite badly in an exam, someone will say: "Let me get you a nice cup of tea".
