[Stop-traffic] News/Yemen: 25 Kidnapped Children Returned to Yemen

[Melanie Orhant]

25 Kidnapped Children Returned to Yemen
Arab News (Saudi Arabia), March 16, 2004
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=41292

SANAA -- Sources in Yemen revealed that Saudi authorities handed over 
25 kidnapped children to Yemen last week, Al-Watan reported. 
According to these sources, the kidnapping gang then put these 
children to work in the Kingdom. Some of the children identified 
their kidnappers. Yemeni forces have begun to hunt down child 
kidnapping rings in the country. According to Yemeni sources, the 
kidnapping cases sometimes happen with the collusion of families who 
want their children to work in neighboring countries and provide 
money to the parents.