
A former hostage of the so-called Isis ‘Beatles’ described how he was waterboarded, beaten, starved and forced to fight fellow detainees as part of a “regime of punishment” meted out by his captors.
Federico Motka, an Italian aid worker who was held by Isis for 14 months in Syria, detailed his brutal treatment at the hands of the British jihadists during the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, who the prosecution has alleged was known as ‘Ringo.’