Mother of Kenji Goto, being held by ISIS, pleads for his life, as deadline for payment of $200 million ransom looms.

As the clock ticks down to the end of the deadline ISIS has given the Japanese government to pay a massive ransom, the mother of hostage Kenji Goto, appealed for her son’s life, explaining: “My son is not an enemy of Muslims.”

Junko Ishido tearfully explained at a press conference on Friday morning in Tokyo that it was freelance journalist Goto’s sense of justice that originally led him to work in the Middle East.

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