(CTV) The end of January was an anniversary of sorts for Kimberly Polman. Time counted in despair, sickness, fear, suicide attempts, searing desert heat in the summer, howling wind and swirling dust in the winter. Hepatitis, broken teeth and tent fires.
It is three years since she was arrested by Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria and sent to a detention camp for her alleged association with ISIS.
Polman insists she was neither an activist nor supporter. That she was lured into the violent ISIS underworld by a man who promised marriage, and an opportunity to help the suffering people of Syria.
She went — stupidly, she admits — and is now paying for it with a loss of her freedom. And the real prospect of dying there.
