New Zealand's foreign minister has confirmed that a nurse has been held captive by the ISIS in Syria for almost 6 years.
"From the moment Louisa and the others were kidnapped, every decision we made was to maximize the chances of winning their freedom."
The status of nurse and midwife Louisa Akavi, now 62, is unknown, but her employer, the International Committee of the Red Cross, says it has received recent eyewitness reports suggesting she might be alive.became the first media organization to name Akavi, ending a more than 5 ½-year news blackout imposed by New Zealand's government and the Red Cross with the cooperation of international media.
"We continue to work together to locate and recover her," New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said."This has been a uniquely complex and difficult case. Louisa went to Syria with the ICRC to deliver humanitarian relief to people suffering as a result of a brutal civil war and ISIS occupation."
Dominik Stillhart, director of operations for the ICRC, said the organization had decided to permit publication in the hope it would elicit new information on her whereabouts.
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