In September 2015, Marites and her partner Robert were kidnapped from their boat near Samal Island in the Philippines. They were held for nine months in the jungle. Robert was murdered on 13 June 2016 and shortly after Marites was freed. She first heard about Hostage International from...
Jorge L. Toledo was arbitrarily detained for 1,775 days as a political prisoner in Venezuela. He endured notorious prisons in which he survived brutal physical and psychological torture. He strongly believes that you can extract value…
British psychologist, Dr Sarah Whittaker, is on our network of mental health experts working with many of those we support at Hostage International. The article below was originally published in faz.net. Dr. Sarah Whittaker is a…
Three years, nearly to the day, of her release from arbitrary detention in Iran, Nazanin was in Salisbury Cathedral in conversation with The Rt Revd Karen Gorham, Bishop of Sherborne. On International Womenâs Day, Nazanin shared…
A labour of love saw Dave Muller spending ten years building a yacht from scratch and in 1990 he set off with his family to fulfil his dream of voyaging to the tropics. Despite years of…
David Haines, a humanitarian worker, was among 26 hostages captured in Syria by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in 2013, before being murdered in September 2014. His daughter, Bethany, was 16 at the…
Bernard, an Irish-French tourism consultant with a love of Iran, was working with a local friend and tourism operator researching a new potential tour of the country when he was picked up by police and taken…
Canadian Robert Hall cashed in his life savings, bought a boat and sailed her halfway across the world to be with the woman he loved. He was a devoted father, brother, grandfather, uncle and a talented…
Yoga is practiced by many across the world, and 21 June is the International Day of Yoga, as proclaimed by the United Nations. To highlight this day, weâve been speaking with Catie, previously a lawyer, who…
16 January 2013 is a date that Nick Hitch was convinced he would not survive when militants linked to Al-QaedaâŻattacked the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria where he worked as a manager. A decade on,…
In the run up to Christmas 2018, Jocelyneâs daughter Edith was captured by an Islamic militant group when travelling with a friend in Burkina Faso. They were held for 450 days. Throughout those 15 months, even…
Miles Hargroveâs father, Tom, was kidnapped in Colombia in 1994 when working as an agricultural scientist. During the 11 months of his captivity, his wife Susan encouraged their son Miles to pick up his Super-8 camera…
One womanâs brother was kidnapped in Latin-America a few years ago and every day she lives with the fact that he has never been found. She now lives in the UK with her family. Here, she…
Hostage International trustee and former hostage, Judith Tebbutt, reflects on the decade following her kidnap. Ten years ago, on 11 September 2011, I was abducted by Somali pirates whilst on holiday in Kenya with my husband…
Colin Freeman, journalist and former foreign correspondent at the Sunday Telegraph, highlights how Hostage International supported his loved ones when he was kidnapped in 2008 One November afternoon back in 2008, my Dad got a phone…
It is five years since Chris returned to the UK, after a terrifying ordeal when he was kidnapped when working as a mineral products expert in Nigeria. Hostage International helped him through the difficult time adjusting…
