A detainee in the notorious British jihadist cell described the treatment, among other abuses, the group received during the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh from London, which included electric shock, a naval vessel and coercion to monitor the executions. Federico Motka, an Italian-born aid worker who grew up in the United Kingdom, told a federal court in Virginia that he and David Haines had to fight British hostage John Cantlie and American James Foley over Beat fun. “At this point we were massively weak and emaciated as they were not feeding us. “I barely had the muscles to lift my arm,” Motka said, describing in detail how he lost 20 kilograms in captivity. Journalists Foley and Cantlie fainted, but were all forced to continue until they could no longer bear it. The losers, the jihadists warned, would be subjected to corporal punishment. “They called it the Royal Rumble,” Motka said. “They were very excited as they cheered from the roof. When a person was too tired to fight, they would go out. It went on for about an hour.” Elsheikh, 33, from Shepherd’s Bush in London, is accused of being a member of the four-member IS jihadist group that abducted, tortured and beheaded American and British citizens between 2013 and 2015. Each member was given a nickname by their hostages – Mohammed Emwazi was John, Aine Davies was Paul and according to prosecutors Alexanda Kotey was George and Elsheikh Ringo.
