Somalia's Prime Minister is calling for a halt to ransom payments to pirates and kidnappers.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

Nor may you accept ransom in lieu of flight to a city of refuge."

那逃到逃城的人，你们不可为他收赎价“

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You could demand ransom for them.

你可以为他们要求赎金

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In recent years, Somalia has seen a surge in ship hijackings that has netted pirates millions of dollars in ransom.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

But the millions of dollars they demand in ransom payments are not used to help pastoral communities and in-land towns.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

The U.S.Navy and the navies of dozens of other countries are patrolling the narrow waterway to deter ship hijackings-for-ransom by pirate gangs.

VOA: standard.2010.01.07

"But a lot of groups that are responsible for the abductions are also very keen in obtaining ransom.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

A Hisbul Islam spokesman, Mohamed Osman Aruus, denied that anyone in his group had received a ransom.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

He says it is not,however, appropriate to talk about whether a ransom payment was made.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

(Voice) He says he will soon be negotiating a ransom demand with the owners.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

On land,gunmen have carried out scores of kidnappings-for-ransom, targeting mostly journalists and aid workers.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

Separately, a French foreign ministry official told reporters in Paris the agent had escaped on his own, without incident, and that no ransom had been paid.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

Shipping companies are known to pay hundreds of thousands - and sometimes millions - of dollars in ransom for the release of their crews and vessels.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

The governments of Canada and Australia have a strict policy against making ransom payments.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

Security consultants say a foreigner gets kidnapped, on average,once every other month in the country, with ransom payments for their release reaching hundreds of thousands of dollars.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

On Thursday, Somalia's Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke refused to comment on reports that a ransom of as much as $700,000 was eventually paid to the kidnappers.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

Some were released,but many killed. Many Iraqis have also been kidnapped, mostly for ransom,amid the chaos and lawlessness that swept the country in the aftermath of the invasion.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

Abducted workers are often released in exchange for a ransom payment.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

An international security analyst with experience in kidnapping and ransom negotiations in Somalia tells VOA that an undisclosed amount of money was raised and subsequently paid through local Somali contacts.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

Sources in Mogadishu tell VOA that there are reports that some members of a hard-line Islamist insurgent group called Hisbul Islam arranged for the release of Obriere in exchange for a ransom.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26