Locked Up Abroad

An American is caught mailing hashish to himself from the Philippines to Korea and is imprisoned for three and a half years.

A safari party's journey of a lifetime turns into a bloodbath when members of the group are kidnapped by rebels in Uganda.

An 18-year-old lingerie model makes a mistake in Texas that leads to her imprisonment in Bangladesh.

A couple on an anniversary trip in the Philippines is taken hostage, along with 18 others, by an Islamic extremist group.

Amid the chaos of the Iraqi invasion, a 19-year-old man manages to escape from a Kuwaiti prison during the second of his 5-year sentence for drug dealing.

A couple in Chechnya to help local children is kidnapped by rebels and held in captivity for 14 months.

While traveling in India, Rhys Partridge gets kidnapped by a terrorist who had been involved in the beheading of journalist Daniel Pearl.

British journalist Amardeep Bassey travels to Afghanistan, on assignment, but ends up jailed in Pakistan, accused of being a spy.

An American innocently thinks he's simply been invited along on a nice trip to Peru with a new female friend until he gets thrown in jail after she gets caught trying to smuggle two suitcases packed with cocaine back to the United States.

Terrorists kidnap a couple taking a driving holiday in Malaysia.

In 1997, Taiwan's most wanted criminal breaks into the home of a diplomat and his family and holds them hostage for 26 hours in an attempt to negotiate the release of his imprisoned wife.

Desperate for cash, an American man agrees to transport cocaine from Ecuador to Europe for $7,000 and gets busted, ending up in one of Ecuador's most notorious prisons.