Published 19:27 IST, October 6th 2019

ISIS' Jihadi Jack spotted in secret Syrian prison on TV by parents

"Jihadi Jack" the British terror suspect was spotted lying in a crouching position in a Syrian prison, by his parents

Reported by: Aishwaria Sonavane
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"Jihi Jack" British terror suspect was spotted lying in a crouching position in a Syrian prison. Jack Letts, wearing an orange jumpsuit, was recognised on a US news channel last week by his parents. 

Muslim convert, who declared himself as "enemy of Britain" left his home in Oxfordshire to join ISIS in Middle East in 2014 was ripped off his British citizenship. However, Letts, who held dual citizenship is still a Canian citizen. Justin Trudeau's Canian government said UK h "off-loed" its responsibilities.

Lett denied being a fighter, criticised IS as "un-Islamic" on social media and escaped from Raqqa, capital of caliphate in May 2017, according to an international report. 

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As per foot filmed in a secret prison, Letts is reportedly locked up in Syria's Qamishli prison, without a trial.

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His mor told an international news media network, "It's worse than my worst nightmares. If re is evidence he has committed a crime, n bring him home and put him on trial, and if he is guilty, send him to prison. But he has been in this limbo for two-and-a-half years with end in sight."

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UK Home Office has dismissed Lett's mor's plea for him to be allowed to return to Britain and faced trial in country. 

Jihi Jack's parents were accused of funding terrorism, after couple sent £223 to ir son in June 2015, defying police warnings of Lett joining ISIS. couple, however, refused to mit that ir son h joined terror organisation. 

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Letts left opulent life in Britain to join ISIS in Syria but was later captured by Kurdish forces while trying to flee to Turkey in 2014, after caliphate collapsed in country. However, after being captured, he said that he h " intention of blowing up Britons."

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In occasional letters to his parents, Jihi Jack, writing about his experience said that he was being held in a mass cell, with access to exercise or outdoors, where y are boiling in summers and freezing in winters.

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ISIS fighters in Syrian jails 

Ims published by international news media divulged grim reality of people locked up in Syrian jails. In Kurdish-controlled rth-West Syria, along with 'Jihi Jack,' around 12,000 ISIS terrorists are held in cramped prisons, with to lie, along with ir hes and beards are shaved. 

According to reports, male ISIS members are kept in secret prisons, while women and children are kept in camps. 

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19:14 IST, October 6th 2019