Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute Wex entry on the taking of hostages, defining the offense as seizing or detaining a person and threatening to kill, injure or continue to detain them to compel a third party to act or abstain from acting.
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URLhttps://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/taking_of_hostages
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Reliability Tier1
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Cornell LII Wex: Hostage Taking
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https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/taking_of_hostages
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Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute
Main definition paragraph
seizes or detains and threatens to kill, to injure, or to continue to detain another person in order to compel a third person or a governmental organization to do or abstain from doing any act as an explicit or implicit condition for the release of the person detained, or attempts or conspires to do so
View the SourceClaims Backed By This Source (6 claims)
This source backs 6 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 4 claims: 4 well-attested.
- Offenses, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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