Sentence examples for subject to kidnapping from inspiring English sources

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His own family has been subject to kidnapping attempts, and he has come out in favor of drug legalization as a way of dealing with Guatemala's role as a transit point for narcotics bound for the United States.

Angela Maria Tafur de Barco, Mrs. Dominguez's daughter, who is a lawyer for the family in Colombia, said the family converted the money into dollars to avoid the fluctuation of the peso, and because they feared that such a large sum could make family members subject to kidnapping, a common crime in Colombia.

The law deems all women who join the sex industry voluntarily to be victims of sexual exploitation and they have the same status as women who have been subject to kidnapping, rape, imprisonment and other crimes committed to force them to sell sex against their will.

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In Iraq, UNICEF has received reports that a growing number of children have been recruited and used by militias and insurgent groups and that girls are increasingly subject to murder, kidnapping and rape, or are being abducted and trafficked within or outside Iraq for sexual exploitation.

Both in the written text and in the performance, the characters face sudden violations (or intrusions) during their daily trips, especially after passing the Iraqi border on the way to Baghdad, where hundreds of passengers and drivers are subject to attack, kidnap, robbery and bloody murder.

Many Eritreans flee in search of employment and to avoid national service, but the route to Europe can lead to migrants falling into the hands of human trafficking networks that target them and subject some to kidnap, torture, and enslavement.

It was common for ethnic 'out-groups' – Dutch internees, Eurasian, Ambonese and Chinese – and anyone considered to be a spy, to be subjected to intimidation, kidnap, robbery, and sometimes murder, even organised massacres.

The rationale for examining street sex workers in the current study is empirically based, with previous studies suggesting that they are a more marginalised group than non street sex workers, being more vulnerable to adverse contact with law enforcement, subject to physical assault, rape, kidnap, and being threatened with a weapon [ 5, 28- 30].

Foreign journalists found themselves subject to a startling risk of kidnapping, and all but stopped travelling to northern Syria.

The government should address the core allegations of 12 claimants who say they were kidnapped, tortured, subject to control orders or tricked into travelling to Libya where they were detained or mistreated, a high court judge has said.

Government lawyers have asked a high court judge to allow secret evidence to be presented behind closed doors in the case of five out of 12 people who allege they were kidnapped, tortured, subject to control orders or tricked into travelling to Libya where they were detained and mistreated.

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