(CTV) For years, Sally Lane and John Letts have feared their son Jack is dead — and no one has told them.
Their fears lingered in my mind as I travelled for days across a perilous region of northeast Syria, hounding Kurdish officials to honour their promise to let me interview him. By the fifth day, it became clear: they had no idea where their longest-serving foreign inmate was.
Jack Letts, 29, who has been in their custody for seven-and-a-half years without ever having been charged with a crime, was lost in the labyrinth of secret prisons holding suspected ISIS members.
This region is dotted with makeshift Kurdish-run prisons, housing an estimated 10,000 suspected ISIS members from more than 70 countries.
