The mother of a British-born man detained in Syria for more than eight years fears he could be transferred to Iraq to face execution or a life sentence without a fair trial.
Sally Lane, the mother of Jack Letts, called for her son’s repatriation to Canada, where he still holds citizenship, or to the UK – but says she has been ignored by authorities in each country.
Instead, she trawls online Arabic news and social media posts daily, and speaks to Syrians for signs of his whereabouts. “The UK government says they don’t know where he is,” she told The National. "Any information I get is from the region."
Mr Letts, now 30, was stripped of his British citizenship in 2018 after travelling to ISIS-controlled territory aged 18.
He was last known to be detained in a prison in Raqqa but Ms Lane believes he may have been transferred to another prison in north-east Syria a few months ago, after a jailbreak took place in Raqqa.
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