KIDNAPPING

Cuba repeats its willingness to clarify kidnapped doctors’ situation

Published on: April 12, 2024
13:21

Havana, Apr 12 (Prensa Latina) Cuba on Friday expressed its willingness to continue to take steps to clarify the situation of Doctors Assel Herrera Correa and Landy Rodríguez Hernández, who were doctors kidnapped and and are presumed dead.

Cuba continues to work to clarify fate of kidnapped doctors

Published on: March 15, 2024
12:02

Havana, Mar 15 (Prensa Latina) Cuba continues to make the pertinent efforts to clarify the situation of kidnapped Doctors Assel Herrera Correa and Landy Rodríguez Hernández, whose alleged deaths were disclosed on February 17.

African Union condemns kidnapping of civilians in Kuriga, Nigeria

Published on: March 10, 2024
08:16

Addis Ababa, Mar 10 (Prensa Latina) The president of the African Union Commission, Moussa Mahamat Faki, strongly condemned the mass kidnapping of schoolchildren and women following an armed intrusion in the village of Kuriga, northwest Nigeria.

Cuba pending on fate of doctors kidnapped in Kenya

Published on: February 18, 2024
06:23

Havana, Feb 18 (Prensa Latina) Cuba is presently awaiting official reports on health conditions of Dr. Landy Rodriguez and Dr. Assel Herrera, kidnapped in April 2019 by a terrorist group on Kenya-Somalia border.

Ecuador: Kidnappings and extortion scaled up in 2023

Published on: December 23, 2023
09:11

Quito, Dec 23 (Prensa Latina) About 124 cases of kidnappings and extortions were reported in Ecuador in this year, 17 of which were solved, while seven others are still pending for solution.

Another national doctor kidnapped in Haiti

Published on: July 24, 2023
13:09

Port-au-Prince, Jul 24 (Prensa Latina) Haitian Doctor Pierre-Marie Reynold Grand Pierre was kidnapped in Tabarre, the same area where journalist Marie Lucie Bonhomme and her husband Pierre-Louis Opont were also abducted in June, relatives confirmed on Monday.

Kidnappings decrease while maritime piracy grows in Haiti

Published on: July 19, 2023
07:23

Port-au-Prince, Jul 19 (Prensa Latina) Yesterday, according to a report released, the Center for Analysis and Research on Human Rights (Cardh) reported 150 kidnappings in Haiti from April to June, a decrease of 61.43 percent compared to the previous quarter.

Important week in Chile for cases of dictatorship crimes

Published on: July 17, 2023
08:48

Santiago de Chile, Jul 17 (Prensa Latina) The Supreme Court of Justice of Chile begins today the hearing of emblematic trials on crimes committed during the military dictatorship, among them those linked to the Condor Plan and the murder of Victor Jara.

Violence in Haiti has intensified

Published on: July 14, 2023
07:41

Port-au-Prince, Jul 13 (Prensa Latina) The National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (Rnddh) denounced that at least 75 persons were killed in Haiti from May to date and another 40 were kidnapped.

Pinochet followers were found guilty of kidnapping

Published on: June 2, 2023
14:23

Santiago de Chile, Jun 2 (Prensa Latina) Chile’s justice found guilty three agents of the extinct National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) of student Leopoldo Daniel Muñoz’s kidnapping in 1974, during the Pinochet dictatorship, the press on Friday unfolded here.

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