Mohammed Emwazi, the Londoner identified in reports as "Jihadi John", has been described as "extremely kind and gentle" by the director of a campaign group.
CAGE research director Asim Qureshi told reporters Emwazi was "the most humble young person that I ever knew".
The British group, which lobbies against the US-led war on terror, claims to have had extensive dealings with the alleged IS militant over several years.
Mr Qureshi was speaking after CAGE issued a statement claiming the behaviour of UK authorities had played a major part in the radicalisation of young Muslims like "Jihadi John".
CAGE says security services have "systematically engaged in the harassment of young Muslims, rendering their lives impossible and leaving them with no legal avenue to redress their situation".
It cites the case of Emwazi, who grew up in northwest London and studied computing at the University of Westminster, as an example of this.
CAGE says the 27-year-old first contacted the organisation in 2010 after he flew to Britain from his native Kuwait where he was due to get married.
His communications over the next two years highlighted "interference by the UK security agencies as he sought to find redress within the system".
CAGE said Emwazi told the group at the time: "I never got onto the flight, what was the point, I said to myself; I'll just get rejected.
"I had a job waiting for me and marriage to get started. But now I feel like a prisoner, only not in a cage, in London.
"A person imprisoned and controlled by security service men, stopping me from living my new life in my birthplace and my country, Kuwait."
Emwazi went on: "I have been trying to find out the reason for my refused visa issue from my home country Kuwait, and a way to solve the issue.
"So through my friends in Kuwait, it has been said to me that Kuwait has no problem with me entering, and the reason for my refusal is simply because the UK agents have told them to not let me in!!"
CAGE also cites the case of Michael Adebolajo, who murdered soldier Lee Rigby in London in May 2013.
Mr Qureshi said: "Like Michael Adebolajo, the suffocating domestic policies aimed at turning a person into an informant but which prevent a person from fulfilling their basic life needs would have left a lasting impression on Emwazi."
CAGE claims the "culture of abuse now runs so deep in the UK that there are virtually entire communities which, due to security services acting outside of the rule of law, no longer have access to due process".
"Individuals are prevented from travelling, placed under house arrest and in the worst cases tortured, rendered or killed, seemingly on the whim of security agents."
Mr Qureshi said: "We now have evidence that there are several young Britons whose lives were not only ruined by security agencies, but who became disenfranchised and turned to violence because of British counter-terrorism policies coupled with long- standing grievances over Western foreign policy.
"This case should trigger thinking about British domestic and foreign policy.
"What risk assessments, if any, have been made about British counter-terrorism policy and the key part it plays in radicalising individuals?
"How have the security services been allowed to get away with abusing British citizens without redress?
"Why are the long-standing grievances over Western interventions in the Muslim world been ignored?"
He added: "All parties genuinely interested in achieving peace and safety ought to realise that revising British foreign and domestic policy is the only way forward.
"Acting otherwise would be irresponsible."
On the question of whether the UK authorities' treatment of "Jihadi John" played a part in his radicalisation, Jonathan Shaw, a former head of cyber security at the Ministry of Defence, told Sky News: "I think we can all speculate on that.
"But I think precisely because of that very different impression of that character that existed then to the character we now know him to be, suggests how difficult it is for the security agencies to identify in advance the people who are going to turn into these jihadis.
"If you can turn from this gentle description of a human being to the sort of monster we see on our screens all the time makes it incredibly difficult to identify in advance who those people are."
"Jihadi John" is believed to be involved in the killings of US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and American aid worker Peter Kassig.
Last month, the IS militant also appeared in a video with the Japanese hostages Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto, shortly before they were murdered.
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