The family of a British charity medic detained by the Taliban and locked up in the basement of a secret prison for four months has issued a desperate plea for help.
Kevin Cornwell, 53, has been held by the Taliban’s intelligence agency since January 11 when he was arrested at his hotel in Kabul. He is accused of having an illegal handgun in the safe in his room, but his family say he had been granted a licence and his detention is due to a ‘misunderstanding’.
A family spokesperson said: "Imagine yourself, as a family, as a wife and mother, a son or a daughter, and your husband is held in a country across the other side of the world by a foreign intelligence service. This man, who is the heart of our family, might die from the absence of medical treatment – not because he committed a crime, but because he cared for people."
