[WikiEN-l] News agencies are not RSs

[Risker]

2009/6/29 <WJhonson at aol.com>

> Can someone explain how reporting that he was kidnapped would endanger his
> life?  At least how would it endanger it any further than the kidnapping in
> the first place?
>
> Will
>
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> It would raise the price of his release. It would encourage deeper digging
into his background, which could make him appear to be more of an "infidel"
and thus less worthy of basic human dignity, potentially subjected to
greater physical and mental privations. (Kidnappees who are considered to
be aligned with other nemeses are treated more harshly.) It would increase
the danger to those who were kidnapped with him, if they were perceived to
have been working for an infidel, and he and his fellow kidnappees would be
more likely to be executed as "examples" to others.

Risker