Yasmine RyanYasmine Ryan

Yasmine Ryan is a New Zealand journalist who has spent over seven years covering North Africa. She has reported for The Independent, Al Jazeera English, the International Herald Tribune, Foreign Policy and CNN. She is a 2016 World Press Institute Fellow.

Imprisoned NZ ISIS sympathiser’s father: ‘They’re going to make him a dangerous man’

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The father of Imran Patel, the 26-year-old Aucklander convicted for distributing extremist videos, tells Yasmine Ryan he fears that jail risks turning a silly boy into a serious threat. When Imran Patel shouted, “Tell John Key to stop being a slave to America, and to get out of Iraq. Allahu akbar!” after being sentenced last … Read more