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Evening Standard
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Ellie Crabbe

Elderly woman detained by Taliban for months ‘taught fellow female prisoners’

An elderly woman who was part of a couple held for months without charge in Afghanistan began teaching her fellow prisoners while she was detained, she has revealed, as her husband told of how they thought they would “never be released”.

Barbie Reynolds, 76, and her husband Peter, 80, were freed by the Taliban on Friday after being held for nearly eight months following their arrest as they travelled to their home in Bamyan province, central Afghanistan.

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