Locked Up Abroad
A woman's offer of work in Peru leads to incarceration, attempted murder and the ultimate betrayal.
A woman's offer of work in Peru leads to incarceration, attempted murder and the ultimate betrayal.
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A woman's offer of work in Peru leads to incarceration, attempted murder and the ultimate betrayal.
After a man loses his job and gets a divorce, his friend offers him work smuggling cocaine he is eventually caught and sentenced to 10 years in a Dominican prison.
Texan Carlos Quijas is a happy family man whose girlfriend, Anna, is expecting their first child, but, in Mexico, his life changes forever when he's falsely imprisoned and tortured for drug smuggling.
U.S. Naval Officer Lamar Burton tries to survive in one of Colombia's most brutal prisons.
Steve Peterson attempts to smuggle marijuana from Mexico into the US, but encounters Tijuana cops.
Journalist Phil Cox is taken hostage in Sudan.
A teenage drug courier is tricked into a more dangerous job than she bargained for in Bolivia a teen agrees to smuggle drugs from Colombia.
Photographer Matthew Schrier is kidnapped by Al-Qaeda while departing Aleppo, Syria he faces a choice between saving himself or staying with a fellow prisoner.
The true story behind the Oscar-winning film, "Argo," which is about CIA operative Tony Mendez's daring plan to rescue six diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis.
Caught trying to smuggle heroin, Jerry Amster finds himself facing a lengthy spell in one of Russia's toughest labor camps.
Dumped by her lover, a Chicago woman smuggles heroin from Thailand to fund a new life when caught and sentenced to life at a notorious Bangkok prison, she attempts suicide but fails.
In July 2008, Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan and Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout ended up spending over a year in captivity while reporting on the war in Somalia.
Desperate to keep his family afloat, Paul agrees to smuggle six kilos of cocaine from Venezuela back to Dublin. It turns out to be the worst decision of his life.
The shocking story of two British backpackers who were ambushed and held to ransom by a guerilla group while crossing the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap.
The gripping story of Tom Hanway who fled a Chilean jail with a fellow prisoner, taking a dangerous and fatal escape route across the desert.
Less than a year after adopting her son Marko, Susan Haglof is accused of supplying suspicious documents and ends up in an Egyptian jail accused of human trafficking.
Revealing how British nurse Stephen Comiskey drew the unwelcome attention of the Saudi religious police after a series of illicit gay affairs.
Struggling to pay her mortgage, newly single mom-of-three Ruthie Lambert agreed to smuggle cocaine. However, the much-needed cash came at a terrible price.
Busted for drug smuggling, life in a Mexico jail becomes a living hell for Dwight Yorker, who winds up dressing as a woman in an audacious bid for freedom.
Adventure-seeker Thomas Hamill took a job driving trucks in Iraq, leading to terrifying spell in captivity after being kidnapped by insurgents.
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