Kidnapping

Gaza Freedom Flotilla Sailboat Madleen Intercepted By Israelis

June 9, 2025 Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. Educate! Freedom Flotilla, Gaza, Humanitarian Aid, International Law, Israel, Kidnapping

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s (FFC) sailboat, Madleen was intercepted in international waters by the Israeli military at 3:02 am CEST at 31.95236° N, 32.38880° E. The ship was unlawfully boarded, its 12 unarmed civilian crew and participants abducted, and its life-saving cargo—including baby formula, food and medical supplies—confiscated, as well as personal possessions taken. To our knowledge, no one from the Madleen was injured during the interception. Immediately after the interception, the crew and participants were moved immediately from the Madleen and taken to an Israeli ship. That is only the second time that crew/participants have been taken off the flotilla ship.

US Abduction Of 2-Year-Old Venezuelan Girl Constitutes Human Trafficking

April 30, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Human Trafficking, Kidnapping, Nayib Bukele, Tren de Aragua, US Imperialism, Venezuela

In a statement issued this Monday, April 28, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil condemned the separation of a 2-year-old Venezuelan child from her mother as an act of “extreme violence,” calling it “absolutely unacceptable and unthinkable in the 21st century.” The statement emphasized that this incident reflects a broader pattern of migrant rights violations, directly contravening international frameworks such as the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child and the United Nations Charter. “This represents yet another egregious case of family separation, forcibly removing a child from their emotional and biological bonds,” it declared.

Why Protesters Are Being Sent To For-Profit ICE Prison In Rural Louisiana

April 29, 2025 Stephanie Guilloud and Desiree S. Evans, Mondoweiss. Educate! Campus Movement, ICE, Kidnapping, Louisiana, Palestine, Prison, Racism, Student Activism

In recent weeks, students Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, and Alireza Doroudi were abducted by ICE and are being held in ICE detention centers in rural Louisiana. Khalil’s powerful statement connects multiple realities that demonstrate how state repression is activated to support the rise of authoritarianism. That Khalil and others are being sent to detention centers in remote towns across Louisiana is not an accident. Rising authoritarianism requires a police state, and the expansion of prisons, police, and detention centers is extremely profitable. As the current U.S. government disappears people to a brutal prison camp in El Salvador, they are also moving people to rural Louisiana in attempts to disappear people within the United States borders.

Tallahassee Demands Release Of US Citizen Illegally Detained By ICE

April 19, 2025 Cas Casanova, Fight Back! News. Resist! Florida, Kidnapping, Legal System, Trump Administration

Tallahassee, FL – On Thursday, April 16, about 75 community members rallied at the Leon County Jail to demand the immediate release of Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a U.S. citizen illegally detained by ICE. The emergency mobilization was called by the Tallahassee Immigrant Rights Alliance (TIRA). Lopez-Gomez, who lives in Georgia and works in Tallahassee, was detained by Florida Highway Patrol during a traffic stop after crossing state lines Wednesday morning. Despite presenting his U.S. birth certificate to the court, ICE formally requested that Lopez-Gomez be held in jail for pickup and processing, superseding Leon County Judge LaShawn Riggans’s assessment that the birth certificate was in fact legitimate.

American Rendition: Journey To A Louisiana Cell

April 16, 2025 Hanna Allam, Consortium News. Educate! Detention, ICE, Kidnapping, Palestine, Rumeysa Ozturk

With a line of cars waiting behind them at the train station, the two women hugged tightly as they said goodbye at the end of a spring break that hadn’t turned out to be the relaxing vacation they’d imagined. Their girls trip had transformed into endless conversations about security precautions as one of the friends, 30-year-old Turkish national Rümeysa Öztürk, grew increasingly worried she would become a target of the Trump administration’s deportation campaign. Öztürk, a former Fulbright scholar in a doctoral program at Tufts University, was stunned to find out in early March that she had been targeted by a pro-Israel group that highlighted an op-ed she co-wrote last year criticizing the school’s response to the war in Gaza.

What We Know About The Tufts University Student Kidnapped By ICE

March 27, 2025 Alysha Palumbo, NBC Boston. Educate! Campus Movement, Higher Education, ICE, Kidnapping, Louisiana, Tufts University

A Tufts University student is being held at an ICE detention facility in Louisiana, and there are growing questions about how she was taken into custody and the timeline of sending her out of state. One major issue is whether federal authorities defied the court order to keep Rumeysa Ozturk in Massachusetts, as it was issued just hours after her arrest Tuesday night. Video shows Ozturk, a Tufts University PhD student from Turkey, screaming as plain-clothes agents surrounded her and grabbed her on a Somerville sidewalk just off campus before taking her away.

Venezuela Vows ‘All Strategies’ To Repatriate Citizens

March 18, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Concentration Camps, Deportation, Diosdado Cabello, El Salvador, Guantanamo, Kidnapping, Migrants, Nayib Bukele, Segregation, Tren de Aragua, Venezuela

Venezuelan National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez declared Monday that the government will mobilize multilateral organizations and international law firms to repatriate citizens detained abroad. He accused the United States of “kidnapping” Venezuelan migrants and collaborating with El Salvador in a “modern slave trade.” The announcement came after reports that more than 200 Venezuelan migrants were transferred from U.S. custody to prisons in El Salvador based on unproven allegations of ties to the Aragua Train criminal gang.

Source Reveals US Secret Services Enabled Jorge Glas Kidnapping

May 15, 2024 Aidan Jonah, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Canada, Ecuador, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Jorge Glas, Kidnapping, Mexico, US Imperialism

A well-placed individual speaking on the condition of anonymity has informed The Canada Files that US secret services embedded in Ecuador – through spying on Mexico’s embassy – ensured President Daniel Noboa knew of Mexico’s plan to get former Vice President Jorge Glas to Mexico after granting him political assembly, enabling Noboa to order the illegal raid on Mexico’s embassy and kidnap Glas. The kidnapping of Glas, who has faced political persecution through Ecuador’s judiciary since 2017, sparked international outrage as a blatant violation of the Vienna Convention and Mexico’s sovereignty. Mexico cut off diplomatic relations with Ecuador and has taken Ecuador to the International Court of Justice for this violation.

Venezuela Secures Release Of Government Envoy Alex Saab

December 20, 2023 José Luis Granados Ceja, Venezuelanalysis. Educate! Alex Saab, International Law, Kidnapping, Prisoner Exchange, US Sanctions, Venezuela

Venezuela successfully negotiated the release of Alex Saab, a government envoy who spent more than three years detained. Saab landed in Caracas on Wednesday afternoon and was greeted by his family and Venezuelan government officials. His release comes as a result of a negotiation between the Nicolás Maduro government and the Joe Biden administration that will see the release of up to 36 people, 10 of them US citizens, currently detained in Venezuela. The Maduro government envoy was arrested during a refueling stopover in Cape Verde in June 2020 on his way to Iran to negotiate food and fuel import deals amidst US sanctions.

Urgent: Imprisoned Diplomat Alex Saab’s Life Is In Danger

March 19, 2023 Free Alex Saab, Popular Resistance. Resist! Alex Saab, health, Human Rights, Kidnapping, Political Prisoner, US Sanctions

Today the Free Alex Saab Movement makes an urgent call to the world to denounce the alarming health condition of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, which endangers his life. In July 2021, the Working Group against Torture and several UN rapporteurs expressed their concern about the irreparable deterioration of Alex Saab's health condition. Let us recall that in Cape Verde, on July 7, 2021, after many refusals, Alex Saab was visited by his family doctor, who in his report detected a worrying health condition of the Venezuelan official, especially because Saab is a stomach cancer survivor.

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