{"id":70814,"date":"2025-04-06T17:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T08:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/06\/british-couple-held-by-taliban-describe-dire-conditions-in-kabul-jail"},"modified":"2025-04-06T22:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T13:19:57","slug":"british-couple-held-by-taliban-describe-dire-conditions-in-kabul-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70814","title":{"rendered":"Briton held by Taliban with wife describes dire conditions in Kabul jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Reynolds, 79, detained with his wife, Barbie, since February, says prison is \u2018nearest thing to hell I can imagine\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A Briton held captive by the Taliban for more than nine weeks has said he is living in dire conditions in a prison in Kabul, describing it as \u201cthe nearest thing to hell I can imagine\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a recording of a phone call from Pul-e-Charkhi prison, Peter Reynolds, 79, also spoke of his fears for the safety of his wife, Barbie, who is being held in the women\u2019s section of the the maximum-security jail.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/06\/british-couple-held-by-taliban-describe-dire-conditions-in-kabul-jail\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Reynolds, 79, detained with his wife, Barbie, since February, says prison is \u2018nearest thing to hell I can imagine\u2019A Briton held captive by the Taliban for more than nine weeks has said he is living in dire conditions in a prison in Kabul, describ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70817,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70814\/revisions\/70817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}