Reasonable cause to suspect : a mother's ordeal to free her son from a Kurdish prison
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- ISBN: 1459750942
- ISBN: 9781459750944
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Physical Description:
349 pages
print - Publisher: Toronto : Dundurn, 2023.
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Subject: | Lane, Sally -- (Mother) Letts, Jack -- 1995- Mothers -- Canada -- Biography Political prisoners -- Syria -- Biography Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- |
Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Kitimat Public Library | 365.45 Lan (Text) | 32665002317008 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
In this shocking true story of deceit, betrayal and injustice, the author and her husband, convicted of supporting terrorism for trying to help their 18-year-old son leave Syria, share their painful struggle to persuade the world to save their son, who remains imprisoned in a Kurdish jail. Original. - Ingram Publishing Services
After Jack Letts went to Syria as an idealistic 18-year-old, his parents faced a savaging from the tabloid press. They sent him a small amount of money to try to help him leave and were arrested and convicted of supporting terrorism. Despite any evidence that Jack was a member of a terrorist group, he remains imprisoned in a Kurdish jail. - Ingram Publishing Services
In a story of deceit, betrayal, and injustice, two parents are tried as terrorists for attempting to rescue their son from a Syrian war zone.
On September 2, 2014, Jack Letts, an idealistic eighteen-year-old British Canadian, phoned his mother saying, âMum, Iâm in Syria.â Those chilling words from a raging war zone set in train his familyâs eight-year-long battle to rescue Jack from his disastrous mistake.
When an unscrupulous journalist invented the term âJihadi Jack,â a false image of Jack spread throughout the world. Sally and John, Jackâs parents, faced the mammoth task of persuading a hostile public that their son was the victim of a smear campaign. He should, they argued, at least be allowed home to face a fair trial to address the claims against him.
But the Canadian and British governments had other plans. Jack is currently detained in a Kurdish prison, while the Canadian government claims it doesnât know if he is alive or dead. This is his parentsâ story of their painful struggle to persuade the world to save the son they love.