The man was seized In Syria in February of 2013 . A Syrian man who was held hostage by a group which was absorbed into ISIS in 2013 has shared the story of his five-month ordeal . The anonymous man , who is Christian and works as a superintendent at a building outside of Beirut , Lebanon , was taken by a group called the Muhajadeen Shura Council in February of 2013 . He had passed through 15 Syrian Army checkpoints after entering the country from Lebanon when the militants took him and another man who was also Christian . The men were handcuffed , put in a truck and driven to a location about eight hours away , the man told New York Magazine . Once they arrived , the men were blindfolded and chained to a wall . The militia members informed the second man they were going to kill him and told the first man something even more frightening . They said : 'We know everything about you . We know where your family lives , what their names are . ' Scroll down for video . The Muhajadeen Shura Council ( pictured ) took the man and then joined up with ISIS while he was being held . Members of the Muhajadeen Shura Council would torture the man by beating , electrocuting and starving him . The men were tortured , beaten and starved . On one occasion , the man was forced to speak with his family on the phone while being electrocuted so they would hear him scream and feel more compelled to pay a ransom . Another time , they told the man if his family did n't pay in two days , 'We will make you call your family and tell them it 's their fault you are going to die . ' Later that day , group members took the second man into an adjacent room and shot him . A Christian man from Aleppo , Syria , was brought in and took his place . At some point the Muhajadeen Shura Council was absorbed by ISIS . When ISIS took over , they removed the blindfolds on the hostages . The man 's family paid ISIS about $ 80,000 to get him out and he was released in Aleppo , Syria ( pictured ) The man said the soldiers serving his new captors were 'brainwashed ' and they hailed from countries including France , Belgium , Germany , Russia , Britain , Saudi Arabia , Morocco and Tunisia . The ISIS soldiers continued to torture the men both physically and mentally , but they did not try to convert them to Islam . The man 's family eventually paid ISIS about $ 80,000 to get him out and he was released into the streets of Aleppo . He estimated there were over 100 people being held during the course of his confinement , the majority of whom were Christian , and that 37 people were killed . The man said 'It is a hard life , being a hostage ' , and called his release 'The most wonderful feeling I 've ever had ' . ISIS held at least 23 foreign hostages in the same prison , including Americans Kayla Mueller and James Foley , the New York Times reported . Mueller and Foley are now dead , . British journalist John Cantlie , who was seized at the same time as Foley , is still being held .
Anonymous man was taken by group from the Mujahideen refugee Council . He was seized at a Syrian Army checkpoint after leaving home in Lebanon . he was absorbed into ISIS while he was being held hostage in Syria . During while he was in captivity , man estimates that 37 people were killed . His family donated about $ 80,000 to ISIS and man was captured in Aleppo .