Josie EnsorVerified account

Why should we care? Well, the SDF are UK"s allies and refoulement is contrary to international law. “The fault here does not lie with the Kurds, but with the fact that the West has abandoned them with thousands of detainees, with no support,” says @CliveSSmith

Women in Roj camp in northern Syria told us women and children were called up on March 22 and told they were going home. They didn't go home, they were sent back by bus to ISIS. Some of whom were later killed.

A Tajik mother-of-two named Sitora and a French fighter were executed on camera after they were returned. "He and any others who think they can escape the Islamic State, they should know we can catch them anywhere," an ISIS fighter says in filmed execution

Seeking VPN advice: Hola crashed out on me and was very hit-and-miss before it did. I just downloaded TunnelBear and it's much better overall, but doesn't work for BBC iPlayer

Really shocking figure: Anti-Semitic acts in France rose by 69 percent in the first nine months of 2018, says Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht

One Belgium convert told us some of the European women in the camp have been “re-radicalised” upon hearing their home countries don’t want them back.

“Some of the women here believe in ISIS ideology, I can promise you I am not one of them,” said Nasima Bikom from east London, who is being held in Roj camp in Syria with her four children

It was a twilight zone interview. He was clearly very clever & stuck to the story during two hours of questioning. He seems to still have British citizenship so I guess if he is brought to UK for trial they will have to find enough evidence that contradicts his official story

He tried hard to to present himself as liberal and open-minded, shaking my hand and holding eye contact. But he was accused by people he worked with at NHS trusts in UK of trying to radicalise colleagues and outing a gay Muslim

“Maybe parts of my story don’t make sense, but I can’t change it to be more sensible,” he said, with a hint of self-awareness. “I love Britain, Britain is my home. I respect British law, there there is justice. Everyone deserves a second chance.”

He said that he saw ISIS torture civilians and was repulsed by it. “I saw a hand being cut and I wanted to vomit. I saw heads of SDF fighters. As a surgeon I was disgusted.”

He claims from there he turned out to be an ISIS handler and he was taken at gunpoint to Idlib, then to Hama and finally to Raqqa. He describes himself as a ISIS hostage similar to John Cantlie and claims he was kidnapped “for his services”