The victims included not just individuals, but families ripped apart as children were kept hostage while their parents were released.
Its 30 crew members were kept hostage for eight days, and released apparently after a substantial amount of ransom had been paid.
After initial negotiations, nine of the 10 tourists aboard were allowed to disembark, but one Australian woman and the group's interpreter were kept hostage as Xia negotiated with police, Australian diplomats told the Reuters news agency.
"We're being kept hostage in a fight against our government," Rotem Kemer, head of the Israeli Football Association, told reporters on Tuesday claiming that his organization has been turned into "some kind of foreign office".
2.32pm BST Cara Delevingne (@Caradelevingne) Being kept hostage by @nevillejacobs help me!
She is kept hostage by her father, the island's undertaker, and her mother who is "skittering in madness".
A child killer was kept hostage and murdered in his cell at a top security jail where inspectors have raised concerns about the safety of vulnerable prisoners.
Between 50 and 200 people are still being kept hostage in Mumbai after a coordinated series of attacks on luxury hotels, popular restaurants, a rail terminus and an ultra-orthodox Jewish centre.
All the Truth That's in Me by Julie Berry sees a missing girl returning home after two years; a boy is kept hostage underground in The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks; Blood Family by Anne Fine begins with police rescuing a seven-year-old boy from his mother's abusive partner; and children are snatched and forced to become soldiers in The Child's Elephant by Rachel Campbell-Johnston.
However, the people from animal rights organizations expressed a feeling of being kept hostage in the committee, as their political agenda was more or less impossible to raise without the risk of being categorized as a fundamentalist activist – not worthy to listen to: "Principally I am against all animal experimentation, no matter how they are done, and use of animals for our purposes.
Why is the story about her being kept hostage unavailable to the media?
