Amanda Lindhout
How to survive a kidnapping — when you’re the victim’s mom
From 2017: Lorinda Stewart worked for 460 days to secure her daughter’s release from Somali kidnappers. But life afterwards wasn’t the happy ending she imagined.
Uncommon bonds: The friendship of Lindhout, Khadr and Harper
How horrific personal tragedies drew three suffering Canadians—Amanda Lindhout, Omar Khadr, and Rinelle Harper—into a close, unlikely kinship
Escape from hell
The captivity and rescue of Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan—and what happened once they were back home
More evidence of police brutality in Iran
Cell phone video has been posted of Iranian police beating student protesters at Tehran University last June and leaving their bloody and unconscious bodies in a heap.
Newsmakers of the week
One President needs a footstool, another President writes a note, and will someone please rescue Amanda Lindhout?
Foreign Affairs: pursuing all channels to protect Canadians, as long as it doesn’t involve leaving the embassy compound
Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout has been held captive in Somalia since August. In January, her Somali colleague Abdifatah Mohammad Elmi, was released. The CBC’s David McGuffin tracked him down in Kenya, where he revealed that no one from the Canadian government has been in touch since his release.
Kidnapped in Somalia
The inside story of how Albertan Amanda Lindhout found herself being held for a US$2.5-million ransom