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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andy Gregory

Children of British couple held by Taliban denounce their ‘cruel and unjust’ detention amid health fears

The children of a British couple held by the Taliban without charge in a maximum security prison have denounced their parents’ “cruel and unjust” detention.

Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were detained more than six weeks ago while travelling to their home in the Bamyan province, in what the Taliban claimed last month was a “misunderstanding” that they had fake Afghan passports.

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