Pakistan most dangerous place for reporters ‘targeted to restrict free flow of information and increasingly for huge ransoms and political concessions through sheer violence’ such as beheadings BRUSSELS — One hundred and eighteen journalists and media staff were killed around the world in 2014, with Pakistan and Syria the deadliest countries, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said on Wednesday.The IFJ said those killed, 13 more than in 2013, were either targeted for their work or caught in the cross-fire while another 17 died in accidents or natural disasters while on assignment.It renewed its call to governments to "make the protection of journalists their priority".Journalists are "targeted not only to restrict the free flow of information, but increasingly as leverage to secure huge ransoms and political concessions through sheer violence," IFJ president Jim Boumelha said in a statement.He said some media organisations were now wary of sending reporters to war zon...
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