Taliban say efforts to release a British couple from Afghan prison not yet complete
İslamabad (AP) – Taliban’s efforts on Wednesday To release the British couple A Afghan prison has not yet been completed and rejected that despite the concerns of their families and UN officials, their rights were violated.
Peter and Barbie ReynoldsWho are in their 70s Arrested at the beginning of February After being taken from his homes in the center of Bamiyan to the capital Kabul.
Husband and wife conducts an organization that offers education and training programs. Family members in the UK said that they were ill -treated and were kept in unfamiliar accusations.
UN Human Rights Experts asked for the release of the couple on Monday, said that their physical and mental health was rapidly worsening and they were facing irreparable damage and even death risk.
Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi rejected concerns about the violations of rights.
Muttaqi told journalists at a media briefing in Kabul, “They’re in constant contact with their families,” he said. “Consulate services are available. Efforts are continuing to ensure their release. These steps have not yet been completed. Human rights are respected. They are given full access to treatment, contact and accommodation.”
He did not say which steps were taken to ensure that they were released.
According to the UN experts, the couple’s custody spell included time in the maximum safety facility and later in underground cells, without sunlight, in the General Directorate of Intelligence in Kabul before moving to the above -ground cells.
Peter needs heart medications and had two eye infections and intermittent tremors during his detention and left arm. He recently collapsed, experts, Barbie’nin suffered from anemia and remained weak, he added.
Family members said the British Foreign Ministry officials visited the couple on 17 July.
Peter and Barbie have no beds or furniture and they don’t sleep in a bed on the ground, the family said in a statement on Sunday.
Peter’s face, probably because of the return of skin cancer to be removed urgently red, is robbed and bleeding. “We have written four adult children twice in the Taliban leadership, and we beg them to support their beliefs in compassion, compassion, justice and human dignity,” he added.
