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Lost in a Syrian IS Prison | Full Episode | SBS Dateline

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About this episode

Yusuf Zahab was a Sydney schoolboy, taken to live in Syria under the Islamic State group. He has become emblematic of a generation of boys, now adrift in the prisons of Northeast Syria, locked up without charge since when they were children. Dateline travels to northeast Syria to find Yusuf and talk to other Australians held in indefinite detention there after the fall of IS.

00:00 Intro 01:25 What happened to the Zahab family? 04:22 What happened to Yusuf after the fall of IS? 06:17 Inside the Kurdish-controlled northeastern Syria 08:38 The prison attack Yusuf was last heard from 12:51 An interview with Yusuf Zahab 21:47 An interview with Yusuf's mother 27:25 Kamalle Daboussy reacts to the new Yusuf's alive 32:32 An Australian mum stuck in Al-Roj camp fears for her sons 38:53 Meeting Yusuf's father for the first time 46:55 What international law says about the families of foreign IS fighters held in Syria 51:34 The controversy around repatriation to Australia 55:38 The government response

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