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21-9-2014 BBC News - Alan Henning's Wife Appeals To Is To Release Him
21-9-2014 BBC News - Alan Henning's Wife Appeals To Is To Release Him
21-9-2014 BBC News - Alan Henning's Wife Appeals To Is To Release Him
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21 September 2014 Last updated at 11:08
The wife of a British taxi driver being held hostage by Islamic State has pleaded with the militants to "see it in their hearts" to
release him.
Alan Henning, from Eccles in Salford, was seized while on an aid mission to Syria last December.
In a statement released via the Foreign Office, his wife Barbara said he had been driving an ambulance stocked with food and water at
the time.
Mrs Henning said she had sent messages to IS but had received no response.
The militants issued their threat to kill the 47-year-old in a video released last Saturday which showed the killing of another British man,
David Haines.
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Mr Henning, nicknamed Gadget by the men he was travelling with, was abducted the day he arrived in Syria to help those affected by
the country's civil war.
In video footage filmed as he stopped en route in Turkey he said "no sacrifice we do is anything compared to what they're going through
every day".
Mrs Henning's written appeal comes a day after two high-profile imams in the UK had called for his release in a video posted on
YouTube.
Haitham al-Haddad, an imam from the Islamic Sharia Council, said executing the British hostage would be "totally haram (forbidden),
impermissible, prohibited according to sharia for a number of reasons".
And Shakeel Begg, imam at Lewisham Islamic Centre in south London, said he wanted to make it clear he stood "with Alan Henning"
and added: "I urge you to understand the nature of this prisoner you are holding - a man of peace."
The scholars' appeal to release Mr Henning came after more than 100 British Muslim imams, organisations and individuals
expressed their "horror and revulsion" at the "senseless murder" of Mr Haines, and the threats to Mr Henning.
A video showing the killing of Mr Haines was recently released by IS.
His death followed those of two US hostages, both of which were also shown in videos.
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