Lindhout Ransom

CALGARY — There has been a ransom demand for a freelance Canadian journalist and her colleagues who were kidnapped in Somalia two weeks ago, an organization that defends media freedom confirmed Monday.
Canadian Amanda Lindhout, 27, along with Australian Nigel Brennan and Somali reporter Abdifatah Mohammed Elmi, who served as their translator, were grabbed Aug. 23 by gunmen on the road between Afgoi and the capital, Mogadishu.

FREE AMANDA LINDHOUT

Ransom demand received for Canadian journalist