The resulting loss to trade and tourism is spurring governments, such as Brazil's, to propose tough new anti-kidnap laws.
In Sardinia, bandits continued to operate in some regions, and, although anti-kidnapping laws had been somewhat effective, high-profile kidnappings dominated the news for months.
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Asked what he believed the motive might be, he said that in Portugal, according to the law, "kidnapping" could mean either abducting someone for a ransom or for sexual motives.
In Dr. Álvarez-Machain's case, the Ninth Circuit found that the cross-border kidnapping violated international law and was thus the type of injury for which a foreigner could sue in federal court.
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The letter criticized the "self-serving and internally inconsistent diatribe" of the CIA leadership, reiterating that "any incident of torture or kidnapping violated international law," and also that "detainee abuse...undermined several important national security interests".
I also think, in some ways, having not shared the experience of growing up in Minnesota when Jacob was abducted has been helpful in some respects, because there were certain narratives about Jacob's kidnapping and the law enforcement response to it that were so entrenched that if you lived through them, it could be hard on some level to get beyond them.
In other words, the U.S. was warning Germany not to enforce its own laws against kidnapping and torture, or face serious negative consequences.
