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Captivity, or being held captive, is a state wherein humans or other animals are confined to a particular space and prevented from leaving or moving freely. An example in humans is imprisonment . Prisoners of war are usually held in captivity by a government hostile to their own.
More specifically, animals that are held by humans and prevented from escaping are said to be in captivity. [2] The term animal captivity is usually applied to wild animals that are held in confinement, but this term may also be used generally to describe the keeping of domesticated animals such as livestock or pets .
Detainees is a frequent term used by certain governments to refer to individuals who are held in custody and are not liable to be classified and treated under the law as either prisoners of war or suspects in criminal cases. It is generally defined with the broad definition: "someone held in custody".
Aviva Siegel, an Israeli woman who was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7 and held for more than 50 days until she was freed during a temporary cease-fire, told NBC News she is determined to keep ...
Three additional hostages, held captive since 2014, are still in Gaza. A freed Palestinian prisoner is greeted after being released from an Israeli jail in the occupied West Bank. - Ammar Awad/Reuters
SUVA, Fiji (AP) - Forty-four Fijian soldiers working as U.N. peacekeepers remained captive to a militant group in Syria Friday while 75 Philippine soldiers were in tense standoff with the rebels ...
Not all anti-cult captivity narratives describe physical capture. Sometimes the capture is a metaphor, as is the escape or rescue. The "captive" may be someone who claims to have been "seduced" or "recruited" into a religious lifestyle which he/she retrospectively describes as one of slavery. The term "captive" may nonetheless be used figuratively.
Former Kreditbanken building in Stockholm, Sweden, the location of the 1973 Norrmalmstorg robbery (photographed in 2005). Stockholm syndrome is a proposed condition or theory that tries to explain why hostages sometimes develop a psychological bond with their captors.