Rohan Sullivan
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/ 24 March 2006

Half of Sierra Leone team go missing

Athletes from war-torn Sierra Leone who went missing from the Commonwealth Games village phoned team officials and said they didn’t want to return, and the prime minister warned competitors on Friday that they could be treated as illegal immigrants if they tried to stay in Australia.

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/ 1 June 2004

SA diplomat was tortured in Malaysia

Senior South African diplomat Nicky Scholtz was bound with wire, beaten and repeatedly tortured during a week of captivity after being seized by kidnappers from one of the Malaysian capital’s busiest streets, officials said on Tuesday. Scholtz’s captors, who thought he was a tourist, extorted thousands of dollars and threatened to kill him.