British ISIS doctor, 40, held in a Syrian jail begs to be allowed back into the UK because of 'what he did for the NHS'

A former NHS surgeon accused of joining ISIS is pleading with his former patients to back his bid for freedom from his cell in Syria.

Muhammad Saqib Raza, 40, was captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in January attempting to smuggle himself out of the country and now he's begging his former patients to speak up for him as a form of payment.

He was accused of trying to radicalise colleagues at a number of NHS hospitals before he travelled to Syria in 2016.

After he was captured, he told the SDF that he was not a fighter with Islamic State but worked as a medic in areas under the group's control.

The surgeon, who has been locked up in a Kurdish 'hell hole' jail for over a year, has pleaded with British authorities to repatriate him to face trial in the UK.

He told The Mirror that he is a 'victim of anti-terrorism terrorism' as the Home Office had done nothing to get the dual Pakistani-UK citizen back to the UK.

The facial surgeon from Leicester, who worked in hospitals all over the country during his eight-year stint at the NHS, said that he treated his patients like family' when they wanted help.

He pleaded with them, saying: 'My patients, maybe you care. I beg you, patients of mine, to help me in return for what I did for you.'

Raza split from his wife and left his four-year-old son to go to Turkey in 2017 after he became more extreme in his religious Islamist views, growing his beard out and wearing religious clothing, according to former neighbours.

The well-spoken doctor claims to have been kidnapped on the Turkish border with Syria before being sold to IS extremists saying when he heard the bombs he wished they would kill him.
He was captured by the Kurds Raqqa last year, he said, when he escaped IS. Syrian Democratic Forces accused him of being a fighter for the terrorists but he denies this, despite being unable to explain why he had a laptop and 13,000 euros on him when caught.

The doctor, who still owns a home in Leicester said the British government won't even give him a chance to 'prove my innocence by bringing me back to England'.

'In fact, not even one British intelligence officer has come to interrogate me in my 419 days in a place that's not fit for cats and dogs. I call on them, 'Come talk to me',' he said.

The 40-year-old's explanation for being so close to the war zone is that he was given 'a soft heart by God' and wanted to spend a week treating victims of the conflict.

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Does this guy, in his wildest fucking dreams, think that anyone in the UK would ever want to be treated by him again as a doctor? I mean, if he'd volunteered out there for a well known medical charity etc, Medicines san Frontiers or a similar, then he might be believed. But as it stands, it seems obvious why he went out there.

do we want him back

NO!

Bollocks to him!!!

I imagine sky will be running a campaign to get the innocent ickle poppet back. I would rather the NHS runs checks on how well his non Muslim patients did while he was in the NHS.