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Opinion: Government needs new tools to discourage hostage-taking Special to National Post © Provided by National Post The sign says it succinctly: after two years as hostages in China, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig should be freed. No one appreciates the depravity of targeted hostage-taking quite like Canadians. As Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor continue to languish under deplorable conditions as hostages of the Chinese Communist Party, we are reminded constantly of the gravity of this heinous act. For its part, the international community collectively decided to prohibit and punish hostage-taking with the adoption of the International Convention against the Taking of Hostages (the UN Hostages Convention) in 1979. It is now universally recognized that hostage-taking is an offence of grave concern to the international community.

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