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Kidnapping Summary

Crime of seizing, confining, abducting, or carrying away a person by force or fraud, often to subject him or her to involuntary servitude, in an attempt to demand a ransom, or in furtherance of another crime.

Most countries consider it a grave offense punishable by a long prison sentence or death.

This is the complete article, containing 51 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page).

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