20 January 1981 (30 Day 1359) Iran hostage crisis prisoners freed.

Hostage taking continues to affect the civilian population.

4 November 1979 (13 Aban 1357) Iran hostage crisis starts.

Grave breaches were recorded, including massacres, homicides, hostage taking and forced displacements.

(b) tracking system to pinpoint the location of UNMOs taken hostage and hijacked vehicles

This organization is reported to have demanded and received ransom for the release of European hostages that it abducted in 2003.

However, they had no option except to return back to the village after her husband's family threatened Nabi's family and took them as hostages.

UNMOs are normally deployed unarmed in forward locations, and as such, they are vulnerable to attack, hostage taking and harassment.

Otherwise, the violence would continue, spawning new hostages to history and ensuring that future generations would be taught new wrongs to set right.

So it would appear that it was the Iranians who blinked first, before the incident could spiral into a genuine 1979 style hostage crisis.

Report of the Secretary General on the release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts

But, in a way, the Russian soldiers there are already hostages not least to the Kremlin s bankrupt foreign policy.

We are not hostages to the past, but Uruguayan society needs to know the truth about what happened to ensure that never again will it happen never again.

In 2002, after terrorists took 800 theatergoers hostage, Putin ordered that an anti terrorist component be added to Russia's military strategic plan.

But when the adviser believes his work will benefit those whom the leader effectively holds hostage, he has a duty not to withhold advice.

That poses a huge risk of hostage taking or other reprisals against any intervening country s nationals still in Libya.

In slum areas like Cité Soleil and very poor urban areas for example, around Gonaïves children are held hostage under the brutal and criminal rule of local gangs.

The number of foreign journalists who have been kidnapped in Syria since March 2011 is now 37, of whom 17 are still hostages, detained or missing.

There were some twenty million displaced and refugee children, while others were held hostage, had been abducted, sexually abused or exploited or have fallen victim to traffickers in human beings.

Reports were received of torture and killing of hostages, such as in the case of five hostages found dead and showing signs of torture in the municipality of Corinto (Cauca) in January.

There were 3 incidents of hostage taking and 17 kidnappings, as well as 4 cases of rape and 6 of sexual assault against personnel of the United Nations recorded during the reporting period.

(h) The still substantial number of major violent incidents , defined by the State party as involving serious bodily harm and or hostage taking, in the State party's federal corrections facilities and

Stealing chickens, a crime that the two brothers Ali and Mohamed Mirza were framed for. Imagine that they had just returned after participating in the World Cup only to be arrested for stealing chickens and sentenced to 15 years.

He takes one of Zaphod's two heads hostage and demands they bring him the Point of view gun created by Deep Thought, which allows the target to understand the shooter's point of view.

One of the groups particularly adept at this form of self financing is the Abu Sayyaf Group which was paid millions of dollars in 2000 for the release of hostages seized in Malaysia.

The bloody end to the schoolhouse hostage crisis in North Ossetia, and recent clashes in Georgia between government troops and separatist forces, have put the troubled Black Sea region on the front pages of newspapers once again.

But what is happening in Russia today rampant organized crime, the conflict with Chechnya, and carnage like the theater hostage disaster and the Beslan school catastrophe makes South Africa s transition to democracy look like a Sunday school picnic.

We reiterate our strong and unequivocal condemnation of the acts of terrorism in Iraq, resulting in loss of innocent civilians and hostage takings of people from our countries and we reaffirm our strong support to international efforts aimed at defeating this global threat.

Burglaries, robberies, harassment at checkpoints and the threat of being assaulted or taken hostage are prevalent in many areas where the presence of the United Nations has long been and remains indispensable.

Relations between the United States and Iran have been officially non existent since a group of radical students stormed the US embassy in Teheran 25 years ago this week taking sixty six Americans hostage for 444 days.

Famous cases involving the breaking of diplomatic laws includes the Iran hostage crisis in 1979, the shooting of a British police woman from the Libyan Embassy in London in 1984, and the discovery of a former Nigerian Minister in a diplomatic crate at Stansted airport in 1984.

In violation of the cessation of hostilities, the disappearance of two persons in Puerto Libertador (Córdoba) was attributed to the Northern Bloc of AUC, in the course of an action in which 10 hostages were taken, including a former municipal councillor  8 of whom were subsequently killed.

On 31 October 1941, Franz Böhme, the Commanding General in Serbia, sent a report to Walter Kuntze of the shootings that took place in Serbia Shooting 405 hostages in Belgrade (total up to now in Belgrade, 4,750).

The author's son was found guilty of the crimes under articles 104 (2) (homicide), 181 (3) (hostage taking), 186 (3) (banditism), 195 (3) (illegal buying, selling, keeping, transporting of weapons, ammunitions, explosives, etc.), 244 (theft), and 249 (robbery with use of violence), of the Criminal Code of Tajikistan.

What the court has done is to craft a solution that no political process could have arrived at independently, but which takes the dispute off the streets. Otherwise, the violence would continue, spawning new hostages to history and ensuring that future generations would be taught new wrongs to set right.