Canadian tells of Somalia abduction as kidnapping trial begins

The trial of a Somali man accused of kidnapping Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout has started.
  
An emotional Lindhout recounted the horrors of being kidnapped at gunpoint in Somalia on Thursday.
  
She sobbed upon approaching the witness box to describe her abduction by a gang of armed men in masks nine years ago, the beginning of what she called 460 days of hell during which she said she was repeatedly sexually assaulted and beaten.
  
Lindhout and Australian photographer Nigel Brennan were seized near Mogadishu in August 2008.
 
Both were released in November 2009 in exchange for a ransom payment.
 
Ali Omar Ader, a 40-year-old Somali national, has pleaded not guilty to hostage taking for his alleged role as a negotiator.

SOURCE: NEWS24
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