The story of Camilla Carr and Jonathan James, a pair of British aid workers working in Chechnya to set up a rehabilitation clinic for children traumatised by war. Taken hostage by guerrillas fighters, the couple endured a 14-month incarceration, and were subjected to intense emotional and physical torture.
The story of American missionary workers Martin and Gracia Burnham, who were abducted from a beach resort in the Philippines by Islamic militants
Documentary tracing the stories of two men backpacking independently through India in 1994. British-Australian Rhys Partridge and American Bela Nuss were taken within weeks of each other by Islamic fundamentalists and were threatened with beheading during their ordeal.
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When this drug runner gets busted, his partner in crime gives him an ultimatum -- take the rap, or else. Locked Up Abroad: Ecuador : MON OCTOBER 27 9P et/pt : http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/locked-up-abroad/all/Overview/?source=4003
Drama-doc series telling the gripping real-life stories of young travellers who find themselves incarcerated overseas. This program tells the cautionary tale of Leicester teenagers Jim and Paul, who ended up in a Venezuelan prison for smuggling drugs. They spent four and a half years in a living nightmare before seizing the opportunity to escape.
When Mark Knowles ran into trouble in Taiwan, he thought his only way out was to smuggle cocaine. After swallowing half a kilo inside condoms, he was just hours from death.
Drama-documentary series telling the gripping real-life stories of young travellers who find themselves incarcerated overseas. Piers Hernu's thirst for adventure landed him in a Nepalese jail for gold smuggling. After being convinced to carry a gold-filled waistcoat through customs, Piers found himself in deep trouble when his illegal load was found by a metal detector. Facing four years in jail, Piers launched a campaign to convince the King of Nepal to pardon him.
When 45-year-old yachtsman Donald MacNeil had a call from two acquaintances offering him a month's freelance teaching in the Mediterranean he couldn't believe his luck. But as the month drew to an end, Donald's suspicions that this trip was not all that it seemed became terrifyingly real. Threatening that there was nowhere to hide should he turn on them, Donald was given a new course - Venezuela, to collect £30 million pounds worth of cocaine. Donald's good fortune was about to become a nightmare that would change his life forever.
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