UK – Daily Mail, July 23, 2025
An elderly British couple held in Afghanistan for over five months are reportedly ‘receiving medical care’ and are ‘in occasional contact with their families’.
The update on the couple was given by the Taliban‘s foreign minister after UN experts warned that Peter, 80, and Barbie Reynolds, 75, could die in custody.
They were arrested on February 1 in Bamiyan province along with an Afghan interpreter and their Chinese-American friend Faye Hall, who has since been released.
The pair, who have lived in Afghanistan for 18 years and were married in Kabul in 1970, ran a training organisation offering education programmes, including parenting skills courses.
At a press conference in Kabul, the minister said: ‘All their human rights are being respected. They are being provided with medical care.
‘They are in occasional contact with their families.’ He added that ‘efforts are underway to secure their release, but the process is not complete’.
