British couple ‘dying’ in Afghan prison, warns woman held by Taliban

An American woman who was detained by a British couple by the Taliban told the BBC that they “literally die” and “time exhausted”.

Faye Hall was arrested with 76 -year -old Peter and Barbie Reynolds when the couple returned to the Bamiyan province in Afghanistan.

Mrs. Hall Released two months laterPeter and Barbie stay in prison and still don’t know why they’re being held.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (FCDO) said that a couple in Afghanistan support their family.

Speaking to BBC Breakfast in his first interview since his release, Mrs. Hall drowned in tears when asked what he wanted to tell.

“I love them, I know they’il be out soon, never give up.”

Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds married in Kabul in 1970 and lived in Afghanistan for 18 years before his arrest – why he was not approved despite the fact that he appeared to four courts.

The couple had Afghan citizenship, and when they came to power in 2021, he conducted a aid program approved by the Taliban.

Ms. Hall said that the group containing a interpreter flew from Kabul to Bamiyan province on a specially rented plane when they were stopped at a checkpoint.

Later, they spent days on the road between the police stations and prisons.

He explained the conditions they were kept, including the maximum security prison that holds illegal cells and “killers”, where the barber’s fence surrounded by fence and where the guards carry machine guns.

He warned that their health was rapidly worsening in prison, Barbie lost a significant weight and couldn’t stand it once.

He also noticed that Peter was more ill, despite the fact that he took medication from the Qatar government he needed every day after he received cardiac surgery and cancer treatment.

“We only have these old people, they literally die of the word, and time is exhausted.”

He stressed that conditions receive a mental wage as well as a mental wage, because “you don’t know where to be tomorrow day”.

“This is not a healthy environment and we were the only strangers there.”

The couple’s son to BBC before They were afraid that they would die in prisonWarning that Peter was subjected to serious convulsions and that Barbie was “numb” without anemia and malnutrition.

In July, the UN warned that the couple could disappear in such humiliating conditions if they did not take medical care at a time, and called their detention “inhuman”.

Ms. Hall urged the US and British governments to “work together” and to do more to ensure the release of the couple.

FCDO said: “We support the family of two British citizens detained in Afghanistan. The Minister met the family to discuss the case.

The United Kingdom closed his embassy in Kabul and Taliban withdrew his diplomats from the country after returning to power in 2021.

FCDO says that support to British citizens in Afghanistan is “seriously limited” and advised the country against all travels.

US State Department spokesman, Taliban “foreign nationals unfairly detained the date,” he said.

He continued to terminate the pledge diplomacy practices permanently and release all the detained all the ones taken into custody. “

Taliban’s Foreign Minister said that in July, Barbie and Peter’s “constant contact with their families” and their efforts to release continued, but “these steps have not yet been completed”.

“Human rights are respected. They are given full access to treatment, contact and accommodation.”