Between 2014 and 2016, while held in IS captivity, John Cantlie repeatedly appeared narrating a series of their propaganda videos from Syria and Iraq.
13 Facts About John Cantlie
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In 2017, reports surfaced in Iraqi media claiming John Cantlie had been killed by an airstrike in Mosul.
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John Henry Cantlie was the great-grandson of Sir James Cantlie, a doctor who co-founded the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese in 1887.
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John Cantlie started his journalistic career in the early 1990s as a tester for Sega video games.
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John Cantlie was reportedly kidnapped by fighters while crossing illegally into Syria from Turkey on 19 July 2012, near Bab al-Hawa.
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John Cantlie's rifle clattered to the ground as his friends dragged his headless torso from the line of fire.
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John Cantlie has been missing since late 2012, and the trial of one of his alleged captors collapsed in 2013, when he could not be summoned as a witness.
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In September 2014, it was revealed that John Cantlie had been abducted a second time, along with American journalist James Foley.
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John Cantlie was particularly critical of US and British hostage policy, comparing it unfavourably to the policy of other European countries that negotiate and pay for the release of hostages.
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John Cantlie's family urged IS jihadist captors to make contact with them.
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On 28 July 2017, the Iraqi Al-Sura News Agency alleged that John Cantlie had been killed in an airstrike sometime during the battle of Mosul, after the agency conducted interviews with three captured IS militants.
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In February 2019, British Security Minister Ben Wallace stated that John Cantlie was believed to still be alive.
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However, John Cantlie's family believes he was killed and held a funeral for him in 2022.