BEIRUT — The Islamic State group on Thursday released a video showing a British journalist who says he is a prisoner of the terrorists.
In a slick, three-minute video shot with three cameras, John Cantlie, a photojournalist, said he worked for publications including The Sunday Times, The Sun and The Sunday Telegraph.
In November 2012, he came to Syria, where he was subsequently captured by the Islamic State.
The group, which controls roughly a third of Syria and Iraq, has beheaded two U.S. journalists and a British aid worker, and has threatened to kill another British hostage.
The British government declined to comment on the video. In Copenhagen, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said he had heard about the video but had not yet seen it.
Titled “Lend Me Your Ears,” the video is previewed as the first in a series of lecture-like “programs” in which Cantlie said he will reveal “the truth” about the Islamic State.
Wearing an orange T-shirt and sitting behind a desk, he criticized the war on the Islamic State and said he and other British and U.S. hostages have been abandoned by their governments.
Cantlie’s name has not been mentioned among foreign hostages held by the group.
