A Danish hostage of ISIS has now revealed for the first time his shocking experiences at the hands of the British executioner Jihadi John.
Daniel Rye Ottosen was a photographer who was held by the terror group for 13 months before he was greed after his family had paid a ransom.
In a new interview, he now described how Jihadi John enjoyed humiliating his victims – and once forced him to dance the tango before threatening to cut off his nose with a pair of pliers.
Mr Ottosen told Danish broadcaster DR that Jihadi John – real name Mohammed Emwazi – and the three others militants known as The Beatles were the cruellest of all his captors.
He recalled Emwazi asking him: ‘Do you want to dance?’ before pulling him up and forcing him to dance, The Telegraph reported.
‘I just looked at the ground because I didn’t want to look at them – if you looked them in the eye you would just get beaten more.
‘He led me around the prison and then suddenly it just changed and he threw me down and kicked and hit me. Then they ended by threatening to cut my nose off with side-cutting pliers.’
He revealed he was kept in a cell in Aleppo immediately following his capture, where he was interrogated and tortured for two weeks as they tried to force him to admit being a CIA agent.
Mr Ottosen was kidnapped just three days after he went to Syria, where he planned to photograph the suffering of refugees from the civil war.
After his release, Mr Ottosen telephoned fellow prisoner James Foley’s mother, Diane, to pass on a letter that the despairing American had asked him to memorise during their time imprisoned together.
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