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abduction

noun as in taking away by force

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In 2023 a warrant for Putin’s arrest was issued by the International Criminal Court over his “individual criminal responsibility” for child abductions.

Two months later, the Israeli military found a video of the abduction.

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The heavy-handed reaction of security forces to the protests—jail-cell beatings, drive-by abductions and outright killings—has intensified the protesters’ fury.

The last time she saw her son was in a video of his abduction posted on social media on 7 October 2023.

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Telling her she was her "only hope", she sent doctored images to show they were "somehow related" and claimed to have memories of life before the abduction, the court heard.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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