The jihadist alliance that dominates opposition-held north-western Syria has said it will put a British-born man who runs an aid organisation on trial.
Tauqir Sharif, from east London, was detained last month by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and charged with funding “projects that incite division”.
On Tuesday, it announced that he had been released on bail.
Britain stripped Mr Sharif of his citizenship in 2017, accusing him of links to a group aligned with al-Qaeda.
Mr Sharif, who is entitled to Pakistani nationality through his father, denied the allegation. But he admitted he had fought in Syria and carried an AK47 rifle.
Mr Sharif, who is also known as Tox, is the founder of Live Updates From Syria, an organisation that says it provides humanitarian aid to people displaced by the country's civil war.
According to its Facebook page, Mr Sharif was detained by armed members of HTS in Idlib province on 22 June without any explanation and held incommunicado for several days.
His family, colleagues and supporters launched a social media campaign calling for his release, and circulated videos of demonstrations in the town of Atmeh.
HTS later said Mr Sharif was accused of organising “the transfer of funds to support some projects that incite division” in opposition-held…
