Alan Johnston
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Alan Graham Johnston （born 17 May 1962） is a British journalist working for the BBC. He has been the BBC's correspondent in Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, the Gaza Strip and Italy.
He is based in London.
Johnston was kidnapped in the Gaza Strip on 12 March 2007 by the militant group Army of Islam.
He was unconditionally released on 4 July, nearly four months later, after much pressure was put on the group by the now-dominant Hamas.
Johnston was born in Lindi, Tanganyika （present-day Tanzania）, to Scottish parents.
Johnston was educated at the Dollar Academy, an independent school which is said to be the oldest co-educational day and boarding school in the world, in the small town of Dollar in Clackmannanshire in central Scotland,
followed by the University of Dundee, where he graduated with an MA in English and politics.
He also completed a diploma in Journalism Studies from Cardiff University.
Johnston joined the BBC in 1991, and has spent eight years as a correspondent for them, including in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, as well as Kabul, Afghanistan.
He was in Kabul when Afghanistan was still under the control of the Taliban.
He was due to be the BBC's full-time correspondent in Gaza until 1 April 2007, and at the time of his kidnapping was the only foreign reporter with a major Western media organisation to still be based in the city.
Johnston covered many major stories in Gaza for the BBC, including Israel's unilateral disengagement plan in 2005, Hamas winning the 2006 legislative elections, the 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict and the Palestinian factional violence of late 2006 to 2007.
Johnston is highly regarded by the BBC as a respected, exper...