British couple detained by Taliban ‘moved to maximum security prison’ | EUROtoday

The youngsters of a British couple held by the Taliban with out cost in a most safety jail have denounced their dad and mom’ “cruel and unjust” detention.

Peter Reynolds, 79, and his spouse Barbie, 75, have been detained greater than six weeks in the past whereas travelling to their house within the Bamyan province, in what the Taliban claimed final month was a “misunderstanding” that that they had pretend Afghan passports.

The couple, who married in Kabul in 1970 and have run college coaching programmes in Afghanistan for 18 years, have been arrested on 1 February alongside an American pal, Faye Hall, and a translator from the couple’s Rebuild coaching enterprise.

Taliban official Abdul Mateen Qani informed the BBC final month: “A series of considerations is being taken into account, and after evaluation, we will endeavour to release them as soon as possible.”

But in what she described as a “shocking escalation”, their daughter Sarah Entwhistle informed the Sunday Times final week that her dad and mom had been separated and moved to a most safety jail.

With Ms Entwhistle warning that her father’s well being had “significantly deteriorated”, the Reynolds’ 4 grownup youngsters have additionally urged the Taliban to cease denying their father medical care – and to launch their dad and mom instantly.

In an announcement reported by Sky News on Monday, they warned that Mr Reynolds is reportedly affected by a chest an infection, a double eye an infection and severe digestive points as a consequence of alleged poor diet.

“Our parents’ detention is cruel and unjust,” they stated.

“Denying Dad urgent medical care violates basic human rights and contradicts the principles of mercy and compassion central to Islam, especially during Ramadan.

“We urge those in power to show goodwill and release them immediately.”

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The cause for his or her detention stays unclear. The couple, who initially met on the University of Bath, remained in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover in 2021, having arrange an company named Rebuild, which gives coaching in colleges, non-profit organisations and companies aimed toward “fostering healthy relationships”.

With the Taliban having banned all women’ schooling past main college and stopping ladies from working, it has been steered that the Reynolds might have been detained as a consequence of a course they ran for ladies which taught mothering abilities.

But the Sunday Times reported that Ms Entwistle insisted her dad and mom had native permission for the course and that her mom had been the primary lady to obtain a certificates of appreciation from the Taliban.

And whereas workers at Rebuild have since reportedly been interrogated to find out whether or not there was a missionary element to the coaching, each staff and the household strongly deny that they have been spreading Christian teachings.