{UAH} Ali Omar Ader found guilty in kidnapping of Amanda Lindhout that kept her in captivity for 15 months

Ali Omar Ader found guilty in kidnapping of Amanda Lindhout that kept her in captivity for 15 months

Lindhout was a freelance journalist from Red Deer, Alta., when she and Australian photographer Nigel Brennan were seized by armed men near Mogadishu

An image of Ali Omar Ader is projected on a screen at RCMP headquarters during a press conference about his arrest for the kidnapping of Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout, in Ottawa on June 12, 2015. An emotional Amanda Lindhout recounted the horrors of being kidnapped at gunpoint in Somalia as the trial of one of her alleged hostage-takers got underway.THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle

OTTAWA — Ali Omar Ader has been found guilty in the kidnapping of Amanda Lindhout in Somalia.

The verdict was handed down today by Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Smith, who presided over Ader's 10-day trial.

Lindhout was a freelance journalist from Red Deer, Alta., when she and Australian photographer Nigel Brennan were seized by armed men near Mogadishu in August 2008, the beginning of 15 months in captivity.

Amanda Lindhout is photographed in Toronto on Monday, October 16 , 2017, as she helps promote her mother Lorinda Stewart's book "One Day Closer." THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

Both were released upon payment of a ransom.

Ader, a 40-year-old Somalian national, had pleaded not guilty to a criminal charge of hostage-taking.

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