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• n  the criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force a family member; if a man's wife is abducted it is a crime against the family relationship and against the wife
• n  (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body

• Simon accepted the Hills's abduction as fantasy.
• Burgos' abduction grabbed headlines in the Philippines in part because of his family's prominence during the Marcos era.
• A suspect in the abduction, Afghan war veteran Fazal Karim, has identified Mohammed as the man who drew the knife across Pearl's throat, two men who participated in Karim's .

News & Articles

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• Escaping Abduction: Sending Kids a Message
  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - As awareness of abduction cases rises, authorities are fielding more calls about suspicious activity. As this happens, they’re stressing the importance of keeping kids educated. The reality of losing a child to a stranger is enough to catch any parent's attention.
  June 13, 2013 - KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids
• Escapting Abduction: Sending Kids a Message
  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - As awareness of abduction cases rises, authorities are fielding more calls about suspicious activity. As this happens, they’re stressing the importance of keeping kids educated. The reality of losing a child to a stranger is enough to catch any parent's attention.
  June 13, 2013 - KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids
• Mercer County man sentenced in slaying, abduction
  PRINCETON, W.Va. -- A Mercer County man convicted of killing his wife has been sentenced to life with mercy. Tracy Lee Atwell also received a one-to-five year sentence for the abduction of the couples 8-year-old daughter. Atwell had pleaded guilty May 23 t...
  June 13, 2013 - The Charleston Gazette

Quotes

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• President Bush in Earthtimes (press release)
  The US had rebuffed Japanese demands to tie resolving the abductions to the nuclear deal, but on Thursday, Bush said the US would "never forget the abduction of Japanese citizens by the North Koreans."
• Ehud Olmert in Ha'aretz
  As far as we know, the soldiers Regev and Goldwasser are not alive,Olmert said. "As far as we know, they were killed during the abduction or died of their wounds shortly afterward."
• Irene Khan in Human Rights Watch (Communiqué de presse)
  Behind the political crisis and health emergency, there is a worsening human rights crisis in Zimbabwe, with the most recent development being this unprecedented spate of abduction of human rights defenders,said Irene Khan, secretary-general...