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Hostage International provides specialist assistance for people affected by kidnappings and arbitrary detention worldwide. Our comprehensive approach helps individuals, families and organisations navigate these extraordinary situations. We offer guidance and help around challenges such as financial concerns, legal issues, media engagement, mental health, or any other needs that may arise. We are not involved in resolution but fill a much-needed gap in helping people understand how these incidents are resolved. We help to make sense of any difficulties along the way and offer on-going support after release.
As many families join together this holiday season, Hostage International is launching a campaign to encourage people to spare a thought for all those who may be held hostage or arbitrarily detained, and their families. During…
Verdiās opera classic, La Traviata, was performed by Londonās City Music Services in the stunning surroundings of Denmans Garden in rural Sussex, UK, on 11 October 2025 to raise essential funds for Hostage International. The fund-raising…
A mum of three completed the Great Bristol Run on 11 May 2025 to raise funds for Hostage International. Georgia Ladbury was, until last year, a self-professed ānon-runnerā, more likely to be found singing than running…
Anoosheh Ashoori dreamt of running the London Marathon throughout the five years that he was arbitrarily detained in Evin prison, and in April 2025 – at the age of 71 – he completed it for the…
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.Ā 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 Womenās 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…
