{"id":14592,"date":"2025-07-24T03:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=14592"},"modified":"2025-07-24T03:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:04:02","slug":"taliban-say-detained-british-couple-receiving-medical-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=14592","title":{"rendered":"Taliban say detained British couple receiving medical care"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An elderly British couple detained for months in Afghanistan are receiving medical care, the Taliban government&#8217;s top diplomat said Wednesday, after UN experts warned they were at risk of dying.<\/p>\n<p>Peter and Barbie Reynolds, 80-years-old and 75-years-old, had lived in Afghanistan for 18 years when they were arrested in February along with Chinese-American friend Faye Hall, who has since been released, and an Afghan translator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All their human rights are being respected,&#8221; Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi told a news conference in the capital Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are being provided with medical care. They are in occasional contact with their families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Muttaqi said &#8220;efforts are underway to secure their release, but the process is not complete&#8221;, echoing similar comments by the government in April.<\/p>\n<p>Independent United Nations experts warned on Monday of the &#8220;rapid deterioration&#8221; of their physical and mental health, stating that they &#8220;risk irreparable harm or even death&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The couple, against whom no charges have been brought, were held &#8220;in a high-security facility for several months, then in underground cells, without daylight, before being transferred last week&#8221; to the intelligence services in Kabul, according to the UN.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly British couple detained for months in Afghanistan are receiving medical care, the Taliban government&#8217;s top diplomat said Wednesday, after UN experts warned they were at risk of dying. Peter and Barbie Reynolds, 80-years-old and 75-years-old, had lived in Afghanistan for 18 years when they were arrested in February along with Chinese-American friend Faye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}