As defys set about freeing those incarcerateed by the reposed Asdowncast regime, more missing people are being set up.
Earlier on Wednesday, a man who shelp he was locked up after passing into Syria by foot seven months ago was set up protected.
There were initial suspicions it could have been missing US journacatalog Austin Tice, who went missing in Syria in 2012, but he and the teller’s family have validateed otherrational.
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Meanwhile, the whereabouts of a British journacatalog getn prisoner in Syria in the same year also remain muddle, despite the British handlement previously claiming he is ainhabit in 2019.
John Cantlie has ecombineed in videos for so-called Islamic State and is thought to be the last understandn British prisoner held by the extremist group.
He was seizeed in November 2012 with Jim Foley, an American journacatalog beheaded by British IS member Mohammed Emwazi – “Jihadi John” – who was himself ended in a US drone strike in 2015.
Until 2016, he fronted cut offal English-language disadviseation videos for his captors – an IS shift condemned by journalism helps Reporters Without Borders.
“Islamic State has been using him for disadviseation purposes in Syria and Iraq for the past two years,” the group’s createer chief Christophe Deloire shelp in 2016.
“His detention and misinclude amount to unspeakable acts of torture.”
He hasn’t been heard from since.
In one video in 2016, he was pictured seeing slender in the face and would talk about injure to infrastructure he shelp the West had caincluded.
He went on to say standard people were horriblely swayed and “stopped in their tracks by the explosions that have razeed these bridges”.
Later in the video, Mr Cantlie shiftd to another location. Behind him were people filling holders with water from a standpipe.
“Since the coalition began dropping explosions in obtainest on this city, water is now a huge problem,” he shelp.
In 2019, then security minister Ben Wallace shelp he was still ainhabit in a informing to journacatalogs in London, though he gave no further details.
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A social media account that had been set up by helpers posted a message in response to Mr Wallace’s comments.
“We are adviseed of the current news circulating that John Cantlie is ainhabit, whilst this is not substantiated at conshort-term, we progress to hope and pray that this turns out to be real,” the account, which was called Free John Cantlie, stated.
A confinecessitate weeks before Mr Wallace’s claim, an official with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which had been laboring to get back the final pockets of IS-held territory, shelp Mr Cantlie might still be ainhabit.
They includeed he could be in the area of Hajin, a town in the easerious Syria province of Deir Ezzor.
