Section 402 A Hijacking

Section 2(l) Hijacking

Section 402 B Punishment for Hijacking

Hijacking an aircraft to a foreign country

Armed vehicle hijacking 18 (including 3 attempts)

Since you were a loudmouthed hoodlum hijacking beer trucks in Jersey?

A ransom demand of 500,000 has been made by those responsible for the hijacking.

Section 6(2)(e) Kidnapping for ransom, hostage taking or hijacking as act of terrorism

9 Text of the Hijacking Act is available in the Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs.

The hijacking of the merchant vessel Semlow is an example of an act of piracy that occurred during the mandate period.

District level organizations should be active facilitators of decentralization at the local level, while not hijacking the process from the locals.

In particular, there has recently been a strengthening of measures by the Kenyan police against organized crime, in particular vehicle hijacking.

Voluntary attacks on life, integrity of the person, abduction and kidnapping, hijacking of an aircraft, ship or any other means of transport

And here is the message where one of them says, Looks like we've got a live one. We have a hijacking of YouTube!

Both cases concerned individuals convicted of hijacking an aircraft and sentenced to eight years imprisonment, in accordance with the criminal law of China.

Wilful attacks on human life or physical integrity, abduction and confinement of persons and the hijacking of aircraft, ships or any other means of transport

Banditry, looting and hijacking of vehicles increased during the reporting period, with consequences for the safety of all travellers and the delivery of relief supplies.

We may recall the hijacking of a World Food Programme ship carrying food assistance in the waters off the coast of Somalia in June this year.

19. Malawi submitted the text of the Hijacking Act, chapter 7 03 of the Laws of Malawi, whose aim is , inter alia, to prevent and suppress terrorism.9

Acts of piracy for political motives are not covered by article 101 and the requirement that two ships pirate and victim be involved also distinguishes piracy from hijacking.

Both were drivers one was murdered in the course of a car hijacking in December 1995 and the other was murdered in the course of a robbery in May 1996.

As for the Hijacking Act such an act will apply according to Article 1(1) of the Schedule Schedule when a person board an aircraft who unlawfully, by use of force or by threats of any kind, seizes the aircraft or exercises control of it commits the offence of hijacking, whatever his nationality, whatever the state in which the aircraft is registered and whether the aircraft is in Seychelles or else where.

The world has already taken some important steps against terrorism. A dozen international conventions and numerous UN resolutions commit governments to oppose hostage taking, the hijacking of civilian aircraft, and terrorism more broadly.

Recent incidents involving the killing of crew members, hostage taking and the hijacking of a ship chartered by the World Food Programme carrying food aid for Somali survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami represent grave threats to maritime security.

Exchange of operational information between the Security Service of the airport, the National Security Service, the Police of the Republic of Armenia and other relevant authorities, in case of threat of hijacking and intrusion into the activities of Civil Aviation.

The hijacking of a Nigerian aircraft which had been forced to land in the Niger in 1993, and recent bomb attacks in Nigeria had been sponsored by foreign forces seeking to spread fear and discord and undermine socio economic development.

On a date unspecified by the source, Mr. Rahim was convicted by a court in Pakistan for participating in the terrorist hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi, on 5 September 1986, which resulted in the death of 21 passengers and crew.

To the dismay of many, Modi has underperformed economically, while the zealots have run amok, hijacking his development agenda. And his silence in the face of it all confirms what many in India had feared his economic sloganeering was merely a ploy to secure power.

The hijacking, seizure or taking control of an air, sea or land transport means, the destruction or damaging thereof, the placing of explosives in or on them, any attack against persons in them or the act of exposing them to danger of any nature

Acts, deemed unacceptable by generally accepted human rights standards, such as killing innocent people, hijacking aircraft and bombing buses or buildings are all forms of crime, which must be viewed separately from the so called cause that prompts some people to commit these crimes.

Terrorist acts are punishable under the Faroese Criminal Code under a variety of different provisions on, inter alia, homicide, arson, deprivation of liberty, hijacking, etc., as well as under the general provisions on crimes against the constitution and the supreme authorities of the state.

Yet there are political hitchhikers who want to exploit the recent awakening, not by promoting an agenda of freedom, but by imposing a different type of coercion. In the Arab world, it is mainly extreme Islamists who are hijacking the young generation s wave, stealing their revolution.

Banditry and hijacking along roads from Geneina reached such dire levels during the month of September that all roads leading south, west and east from the town are now either off limits for United Nations staff and critical movements can proceed only with authorized armed escorts.

Cyberspace must be treated, along with outer space, international waters, and international airspace, as property held in common for the good of all. And, like ocean piracy and airplane hijacking, cyber crime cannot be allowed to go unpunished if we are to safeguard our common assets and collective interests.

The aviation security control of the above mentioned persons is aimed at ensuring aviation security in the airports, protecting the life and health of passengers and crew members, preventing the transportation of arms, ammunition, explosive, radioactive and toxic substances and items, preventing the possible attempts of hijacking civil aircrafts.

(b) Losses due to acts of war or hostilities are those which occurred as a result of the existence of actual war conditions in the area of operations armed action by local military forces or militia and any other type of hostilities, including hijacking and other acts of banditry

The Security Council deplores the recent hijacking of a vessel off the coast of Somalia that had been chartered by the World Food Programme (WFP) and was carrying food aid for tsunami victims, and notes the subsequent decision by the WFP to suspend all shipments of humanitarian assistance to Somalia.

India is a signatory to all the twelve sectoral conventions on issues such as Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, Taking of Hostages, Hijacking of Aircraft, Prevention of Terrorist Financing, etc. India has joint working groups with a number of countries under the aegis of which issues of joint cooperation to combat terrorism effectively are discussed.

As with other populist leaders, such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán or the late Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, reconciling Erdoğan s electoral promises and his performance in office is a puzzle. Such figures start out attacking their opponents corruption and accuse them of hijacking the state for a self serving political establishment that excludes the interests of ordinary people.

Third, faced with chronic economic disorder and political instability, Egyptians increasingly lament the hijacking of the revolution, fueling mistrust of the country s governing elites. Empowered by their success in ousting former President Hosni Mubarak, and then sending the country s armed forces back to the barracks, many are readily returning to the streets to hold leaders accountable.

The main objective of the Aviation Security Control is to discover and prevent the entry into aircraft of persons possessing arms, ammunition, explosive, radioactive and toxic substances and items, which can be used for launching an attack on the members of the crew or the passengers, for the hijacking the aircraft or can result in an air catastrophe.

43. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) provided a number of international law instruments that deal with offences and other criminal acts committed on board aircraft or against the safety of civil aviation and contain provisions of some relevance to the subject matter, in particular those referring to hijacking and the manufacture of unmarked plastic explosives.

The effects of banks hijacking of national payment systems to service only the modern economy are compounded by the exclusive agreements that banks and money transfer companies such as Western Union have signed with most African countries. These agreements lock out non banking entities from the highly lucrative market for migrant remittances from the African diaspora, which remain a key engine of growth.

In relation to the competence of the national Courts of Seychelles, please elaborate on the situations in which local courts have extraterritorial jurisdiction that are referred to at page 10 of the supplementary report, and provide information on the various pieces of legislation pertaining to these matters (e.g. anti money laundering, computer misuse act, civil aviation act, hijacking act, the Terrorism act, etc)

In this context, reference should be made to Lebanon apos s firm position of condemning terrorism in all its forms and manifestations including political, cultural and economic. We condemn terrorism whether sponsored by States or by individuals. Lebanon condemns attacks against civilians, embassies and diplomatic missions, plane hijacking and any other act that jeopardizes the lives and property of civilians.