Sheikh Hassan Yousef
Sheikh Hassan Yousef is one of the major leaders of the militant Palestinian organization Hamas. He was arrested in September 2005 for membership in a terrorist organization and is currently in Israeli prison
Fast Facts
- Born in the village of al-Ghaniya, near Ramallah
- Sheikh Hassan Yousef has been in Israeli prison several times
- Released from prison in November 2004
- Imprisoned again in September 2005
- His son, Mosab Hassan Yousef, has renounced both Hamas and Islam and converted to Christianity. Mosab Hassan Yousef first spoke publicly about his conversion in August 2008
- Sheikh Hassan Yousef has not commented publicly on his son's conversion, and his son said his father asked him not to go public with the conversion1
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