The man was kidnapped in early August 2018 from his home, where $800 and 100,000 Syrian Pounds was also taken, according to activists. In recent days this video appeared.
Transcript:
Faiza, tell Farhad, Adnan and Nawras to send 10 million [Syrian pounds] so they let me go.
Because I have begged them to…
pay that amount so they let me go.Tell them: so they won’t behead me; I’m begging them not to behead me
And I have begged them not to behead me.