She is a lawyer alongside partner Saleh Ali Alnoud, a spokesman for the Southern Transitional Council, a Yemeni separatist group.
She has shared a platform with Abdul Galil Shaif, chairman of the Friends of South Yemen which backs the STC, and she has spoken at an event of the South Yemen Women’s Forum organised by Shatha Yasin, who provides diplomatic support to the STC.
Why does it matter that she has such close links with this group? Because Abtisam Mohamed is a human rights lawyer, and the STC is accused of many human rights violations, including sexual violence, the use of landmines, recruitment of child soldiers, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture. There are very serious questions here.
What does this have to do with the BBC? Well you won’t find these facts anywhere on their website.
Lucy Ashton is senior political reporter for BBC Sheffield. Even though Mohamed is the likely winner of the seat, Ashton has nothing to say about her very close links with apologists for human rights abuse.
Is that because Lucy Ashton is a Labour supporter who just happens to be a former Labour party official and prospective election candidate and just happens to be the daughter of Joe Ashton, disgraced former Labour MP?