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Syria jihadists say British-born 'aid worker' freed
2020-07-17
[Rudaw] Syrian jihadists said they released on Wednesday a self-described aid worker stripped of his British nationality, three weeks after he was detained in the country's last major rebel bastion.

Tauqir Sharif,
...the Pakistani-Brit from east London, also known as Tox, who was stripped of British citizenship after admitting to fighting for an Al Qaeda-linked group...
33, was captured on June 22 by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS), which is dominated by Syria's former al-Qaeda affiliate.

The group's propaganda arm Ebaa said on its website that Sharif would be brought before a local court in two weeks.

Sharif "has been released from prison," his relatives wrote on Facebook, welcoming the "great news".

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, said after his detention that Sharif was held over his alleged ties with rival jihadists.

HTS has accused him of using humanitarian aid funds to sow division in the Idlib region.

Sharif first arrived in Syria in 2012, according to the Live Updates From Syria organization he founded with his wife.

Britannia stripped him of his British nationality in 2017, accusing him of links to an al-Qaeda-aligned group it did not specify, the British press has said, but Sharif has denied the allegation.

The Idlib region is home to some three million people, a large proportion of whom have been displaced from their homes by Syria's nine-year-old war and are dependent on humanitarian aid.
The BBC adds:
Mr Sharif's detention came amid a crackdown by HTS on dissidents and defectors in areas of north-western Syria that are under its control.
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