# Hostage-Taking Statute Covers Kidnapping for Ransom Abroad
> **Legal Sidebar** · 2018-07-30 · `LSB10179`
## Report
- **CRS ID:** LSB10179
- **Series:** Legal Sidebar
- **Publication date:** 2018-07-30
## Documents
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