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Patty Kim

She co-directed the 2006 award-winning feature documentary Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story, produced in association with the BBC, and executive-produced by Jane Campion.


1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals

Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, a Muslim leader based in London, and Ashrafuz Zaman Khan, based in the US, were sentenced in absentia after the court found that they were involved in the abduction and murders of 18 intellectuals – nine Dhaka University teachers, six journalists and three physicians – in December 1971.

Abbott v. Abbott

On May 17, 2010, Justice Kennedy, joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Ginsburg, Alito and Sotomayor, delivered the opinion of the Court in holding that a parent's ne exeat right is a "right to custody" under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and the International Child Remedies Act.

Abduction of Jakub Fiszman

The abduction and murder of Jakub Fiszman (1956 – October 1996) was a crime that took place in Eschborn, Germany, in 1996.

Adam Walsh

Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, sex-offender legislation signed on the 25th anniversary of the abduction of Adam Walsh (see above)

Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed

On 17 July 2013, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed was found guilty of war crimes such as genocide, conspiracy in killing intellectuals, torture and abduction during 1971 Liberation war of Bangladesh by the International Crimes Tribunal-2 and sentenced him to death for 2 of the 7 charges brought against him.

Alien abduction insurance

The very first company to offer UFO abduction insurance was the St. Lawrence Agency in Altamonte Springs, Florida.

Alien implants

The 2013 film Dark Skies features a story revolving around implantation and alien abduction.

Astronomical bodies in pseudoscience and the paranormal

In 1968, Marjorie Fish of Oak Harbor, Ohio read John G. Fuller's Interrupted Journey, a best-selling book on the abduction claim.

Barbara Balzerani

In 1981 she participated in the abduction of US general James L. Dozier.

Bobbie Joe Long

There he bound his victims with rope and ligature collars he fashioned using a variety of rope knots, later confessing that he derived sadistic pleasure from the abduction, rape and brutal murder of his victims.

Camden Crescent, Bath

In July 1951 Number 1 Camden Crescent was the scene of an abduction when John Straffen took five-year-old Brenda Goddard and later killed her.

Child abduction

Occurring around parental separation or divorce, such parental or familial child abduction may include parental alienation, a form of child abuse seeking to disconnect a child from targeted parent and denigrated side of family.

Code amber

AMBER Alert, a child abduction warning system in North America.

Columbia County High School

It was the site of Ted Bundy's abduction of Kimberly Leach on February 9, 1978.

Darryl Neilson

These included attempting to rape Kirsty Knight (Angela Dotchin), drugging Chris Warner (Michael Galvin) so that he missed his wedding day, faking the abduction of his own children, distributing dodgy drugs, stealing Grace Kwan's (Lynette Forday) egg cells and eventually drowning after attempting to murder Kirsty.

December murders

After their abduction, the fifteen victims were transported to Fort Zeelandia, the then headquarters of Bouterse and his soldiers in Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname.

Disappearance and displacement of Mario Segura

At the time of his abduction, Segura was the Internet portal director for "El Sol del Sur Tampico", and he maintained the "Timely Alert" (Alerta Opurtuna) blog, which tracked drug-related violence and crime in the newspaper's coverage in the municipalities of Altamira, Madero, Ciudad Mante, Nuevo Laredo, and Reynosa.

Drimnagh Castle

A number of movies and TV productions have been filmed at Drimnagh Castle, most notably 'The Abduction Club' 2002 directed by Stephen Schwartz, 'Ella Enchanted' 2004 directed by Tommy O'Haver and 'The Tudors' 2007 created by Michael Hirst.

Empiricism

This notion of perception as abduction has received periodic revivals in artificial intelligence and cognitive science research, most recently for instance with the work of Irvin Rock on indirect perception.

Extraterrestrial Abduction Day

Its origins are unclear, though it seems it was popularized since the 2008 Alien Abduction Day festival in Toronto.

Four Days in September

The film is a fictional version of the dramatic events of the 1969 abduction of the American ambassador Charles Burke Elbrick (played by Alan Arkin) in 1969 in Rio de Janeiro by the Revolutionary Movement 8th October (MR-8).

Freedom of religion in Japan

Human Rights Without Frontiers reported a long-standing and persistent trend of abduction and deprivation of religious freedom in Japan for the purpose of religious de-conversions, in which families abduct a loved one who has adopted a faith seen as too extreme, confine them, and pressure them to give up their faith.

God Told Me To

The 'alien abduction' sequence, where a naked woman is drawn up into the cavernous interior of an extraterrestrial spacecraft, features (manipulated) generic stock model footage from Gerry Anderson's science fiction TV series Space: 1999.

Half Hung MacNaghten

The practice was the subject of the 2002 romantic comedy “The Abduction Club” starring Daniel Lapaine and Sophia Myles.

Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi

The newspaper reported that in 2005, Gaddafi, then a student in Copenhagen, had directed the abduction and beating of a Libyan national at the home of the Libyan consul in Gentofte.

Harvey Brownstone

Season 2 made its debut on Canadian television on May 4, 2013 on CHEK TV and CHCH TV featuring 16 episodes addressing the following topics: gambling addictions; infidelity; online dating; bullying; same-sex parenting; the impact of high conflict on children's learning at school; high conflict divorce; child abduction; an introduction to family court; spousal support; anger management; raising teenagers; wills and estates; family financing; and breaking up.

Hog's Back

However, the medieval name for the ridge was Guildown (recorded first in 1035 where it was the site of the abduction of Prince Alfred of Wessex by Earl Godwin and then in the Pipe Rolls for 1190 and onwards) but this name is no longer in use.

Ibycus

In another scholium, it is said that the Argonautica's account of Ganymede's abduction by an amorous Zeus (Argonautica 3.114–17) was also modelled on a version by Ibycus (in Homer's earlier account, Zeus abducted the youth to be his wine-pourer: Iliad 20.234), and that Ibycus, moreover, described the abduction of Tithonus by Dawn (Eos).

International child abduction in the United States

Poland has been cited in the compliance Reports for every year from 2000 to 2008 as either a "country of concern," having "enforcement problems" or "demonstrating patterns of noncompliance" with the Hague Abduction Convention resulting in an on-going dialogue between the Polish Consul General and the Office of Children's Issues Director in Washington, D.C. and U.S. Embassy officials and Ministry of Justice officials in Warsaw.

Ivan Lexa

On April 9, 1999, the Slovak parliament elected to take away Lexa's immunity as a member of parliament, and handed him over to the police for suspicion of abduction, robbery, not announcing the theft of a vehicle, feigned buying of a painting, helping in placing an explosive system and for the unlawful holding of a spying device.

José Rijo

In December 2011, German Miranda, who heads the Dominican Republic's Anti-Money Laundering unit, said Rijo had been subpeonaed in relation to his business dealings with Matías “Daniel” Avelino Castro and any information he might have about the abduction and murder of journalist José Silvestre, a.k.a. “Gajo”, of Caña TV.

Karl Ferdinand Wimar

He is known for an early painting of a colonial incident: his The Abduction of Boone's Daughter by the Indians (1855-1856), a depiction of the 1776 capture near Boonesborough, Kentucky of Jemima Boone and two other girls by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party.

Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart

There is also speculation as to its relationship to the German Lanzelet by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, which features the Queen's abduction but not her affair with Lancelot, and may derive from a version of the story that predates Knight of the Cart.

Levi Bellfield

Bellfield was also charged with abduction and false imprisonment of Anna-Marie Rennie (then aged 17) at Whitton on 14 October 2001, after she identified him in a video identity parade four years later.

Maggie Cronin

During her time in Letherbridge, Kate endured countless trials including a miscarriage, Mac's trial for a patient's murder, an affair with a priest (played by Richard Standing), and the abduction of her and Mac's son, Ciaran.

Mars: The Home Front

In it, a conversation between Carter and Jones indicates that something has happened to Dejah Thoris during the war; Jess Nevins' semi-official annotations for the series suggest that Moore was referencing her abduction in "The Home Front".

Matthew Buchanan

While there, he catches Rex Balsom (John-Paul Lavoisier) breaking into Clint's office, and turns him over to security, allowing Clint to blackmail Rex into keeping quiet about Clint's abduction of David, and later to blackmail Echo DiSavoy (Kim Zimmer) into keeping quiet about Rex being Clint's son.

Nicholas Langman

The Greek newspaper Proto Thema named Langman as being responsible for the abduction, interrogation and torture of at least 28 Pakistani nationals.

Paul Verryn

In 1989 a media furor erupted following the abduction of four youths and the murder of James Seipei, also known as Stompie Moeketsi.

Perspectives on the abduction phenomenon

In a long article, Dr. Michael Persinger argues that most of the features of the abduction phenomenon can be explained as the manifestation of measurable functions of the human brain.

Rashidul Hasan

On the 3rd of November 2013, Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, a Muslim leader based in London, and Ashrafuz Zaman Khan, based in the United States, were sentenced in absentia after the court found that they were involved in the abduction and murders of 18 people in December 1971 - nine Dhaka University teachers including Rashidul Hasan and Anwar Pasha, six journalists and three physicians.

Richard Evonitz

Evonitz is suspected of a 1994 abduction and rape and a 1995 rape in Massaponax, Virginia.

Sam Benady

In the first one, The Abandoned Brigantine, Sherlock Holmes reveals the solution to the mystery of the Mary Celeste, while in the second, The Gibraltar Letter, the detective solves the case of the abduction of the Duke of Connaught while he was posted to Gibraltar.

Square of Europe

The square used to be part of Kiyevsky Rail Terminal Square and received its present name in 2002 after it was redeveloped and enhanced with an animated fountain The Abduction of Europa designed by Belgian sculptor Olivier Strebelle.

St. Joseph, Minnesota

Patty Wetterling (born November 2, 1949) is an advocate for children's safety, particularly focused on protecting children from abduction and abuse.

Stan Romanek

Appearing on ABC Primetime in 2009, Romanek underwent hypnosis by Dr R. Leo Sprinkle, a psychologist who specialized in alien abduction cases.

United States House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children

The House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children (HCMEC) was formed in order to assist the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and coordinate United States federal legislation preventing child abduction and exploitation of children, including prosecution for possession of online pornography and solicitation of minors for sexual activity.


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