article_snippet: British Islamic State hostage John Cantlie twice tried to escape British Islamic State hostage John Cantlie terrorist captors and suffered 'weeks and weeks' of torture as a result, a freed ISIS prisoner has revealed.
article_snippet: British Islamic State hostage John Cantlie's punishment for trying to flee the Sunni extremists was so severe that US journalist James Foley almost drowned during one waterboarding session in northern Syria.
article_snippet: Ordeal: British ISIS hostage John Cantlie (pictured in an ISIS propaganda video) twice tried to escape US journalist James Foley terrorist captors and suffered 'weeks and weeks' of torture as a result, a freed prisoner has revealed .
article_snippet: Freed: The moment journalist Javier Espinosa was reunited with The moment journalist Javier Espinosa son on the tarmac of a Spanish airport after spending months in captivity, held by ISIS terrorists .
article_snippet: The details of the escape attempts follow hints by Cantlie that he suffered waterboarding - a torture technique associated with America's CIA - in a propaganda video released by ISIS.
article_snippet: In the fifth episode of a series titled Lend Me Your Ears, released in November, he said: 'Now, unless we tried something stupid like escaping or doing something we shouldn't, we were treated well by the Islamic State. '
article_snippet: Some of we who tried to escape were waterboarded by we captors, as Muslim prisoners are waterboarded by Muslim prisoners American captors.'
article_snippet: The hostage seems well in the film released last month, appearing dressed in black trousers and a brown coat, although he ominously described it as 'the last in this series'.
highlights_snippet: British journalist, 43, made two separate attempts to escape ISIS captors .
  
highlights_snippet: He was punished as a result and nearly drowned during waterboarding .
  