Jihadi John forced me to Tango, threatened to cut off my nose: Former Islamic State hostage

When taken hostage by the Islamic State, the chances of getting out alive are minimal. It’s possible if the family agree to pay the ransom the terror group want for your release.

Luckily for Danish hostage, Daniel Rye Ottosen, a 26-year-old freelance photographer, was released by IS after almost a year in captivity. His family paid a massive two million euro ransom amount to secure his release.

According to Ottosen in an interview with  The Telegraph , his captors werve ‘very good at torturing’.

During his captivity the dreaded IS operative Mohammed Emwazi also known as “Jihadi John” put him through a variety of humiliating and life-threatening acts.

“The most brutal torture involved being forced to stand for days on end. One of the tricks they used with me was to hang me up from the ceiling with my arms over my head and my hands handcuffed, hanging from a chain. I could stand with both of my feet on the ground, but they left me there for an entire day,” he added.

After his release, Ottosen in an interview, opened up on the trauma he faced during his captivity recalling how Emwazi had asked him to dance.

“Then he took me up, and we were supposed to dance the Tango together, John and I." 

Ottosen was one of the hostages who was held together with American journalist James Foley,  Steven Sotloff , and the British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning  who were all beheaded gruesomely at the hands of Emwazi. Ottosen was released on 19 June 2014.