Nicolas Hénin (born 7 November 1975 at Le Mans) is a French journalist who publishes in written media, radio and television. As a specialist of the Middle East, he has covered the Iraq War and the Syrian Civil War. He was captured by ISIS in Syria on 22 June 2013, along with three other Frenchmen, and held hostage until 18 April 2014. After his liberation, Hénin co-founded Action Résilience, a network promoting level-headedness in anti-terrorism, and had become a notable voice in the fight against hate speech. He attended the 69th national session of the Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence (IHEDN). He's a member of the European Commission's RAN (Radicalisation Awareness Network) Experts Pool, of the FrancoPrev network of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie and a member of the Unesco-Prev Chair in Prevention of Radicalisation and Violent Extremism hosted by the Université de Sherbrooke, Concordia University and Université du Québec à Montréal. Source: Wikipedia (en)