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They are reporting on what he told them. Would you expect a news outlet to be able to somehow verify the testimony of a prisoner of war before reporting on it?
The title and article both make it clear that they are reporting his story.
Additionally, the rest of the article - including the ones before and after your quote - discusses numerous cases of other similar scenarios.
"If the circumstance were different would you expect something different?" is what you are asking me. The interviewee isn't a POW, but a defector. And not an escapee, because according to the article he was already sent abroad, so it's not like he fled with merely the clothes on his back and a story to tell. So I would presume he would have a bit more evidence to share with the BBC than just a story, just as many of the people responding to me seem to presume that because it's been reported by the BBC it's prima facie undeniably true.