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Njagi was also picked up in Kenya last year by masked men during a wave of abductions believed to have been targeting government critics in the country.

President Prabowo himself is accused of human rights abuses, such as the abduction of dissidents, under Suharto’s rule.

The police have identified at least a dozen abduction cases since last year some of which have since been resolved, with many going back to 2019.

Masad, a regular contributor to The Times, probes the mysteries of outer space in dramatizing the first alien abduction story.

He argued that he was worried they might try to arrest him, which would be "an assault and abduction".