INTERVIEW: "I hate my life now..."; this was Yusuf Zahab's terrifying experience in a Kurdish jail

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Western Sydney schoolboy Yusuf Zahab was taken to Syria with his family to live under IS in 2015. He was swept up into the adult Kurdish prison system and feared dead. In this second part of his interview with SBS Dateline's Colin Cosier in an undisclosed Kurdish-controlled part of northeast Syria, he talks about what happened to him in jail.

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first part of his interview here
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