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French journalist recounts IS torture, mock execution as a captive in Syria

French journalist Nicolas Henin in a Paris court quietly recounted repeated torture and a mock execution while the Islamic State group held him captive in war-torn Syria. “The whole time, I was in a torture factory,” he told the court on Monday, also alluding to the brutalising of Syrian detainees and executions of fellow Western hostages. Mr. Henin spoke at the trial of Mehdi Nemmouche, a 39-year-old convicted French jihadist, and four others charged with holding him and three other French journalists hostage for IS in Syria from June 2013 to April 2014. Mr. Henin said that when his captors staged a mock execution, he told them to “go on, get on with it”, and they appeared disappointed.

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