{"id":70952,"date":"2025-04-11T06:55:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T21:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/10\/peter-barbie-reynolds-british-couple-interrogated-taliban-since-imprisonment"},"modified":"2025-04-11T06:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T21:55:51","slug":"elderly-british-couple-interrogated-29-times-by-taliban-since-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70952","title":{"rendered":"Elderly British couple \u2018interrogated 29 times by Taliban\u2019 since imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daughter of Peter and Barbie Reynolds, 79 and 75, says they have \u2018no idea\u2019 why they have been in jail for two months<\/p>\n<p>An elderly British couple taken captive by the Taliban have been interrogated 29 times since they were imprisoned more than two months ago, and still have \u201cabsolutely no idea\u201d why they have been incarcerated, their daughter has said.<\/p>\n<p>No charges have been brought against Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife, Barbie, 75, who ran school training programmes and were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/feb\/23\/british-couple-in-their-70s-arrested-by-the-taliban-in-afghanistan\">arrested alongside an American friend, Faye Hall, as they travelled to their home<\/a> in Bamyan province, in central Afghanistan, in February.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/10\/peter-barbie-reynolds-british-couple-interrogated-taliban-since-imprisonment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daughter of Peter and Barbie Reynolds, 79 and 75, says they have \u2018no idea\u2019 why they have been in jail for two monthsAn elderly British couple taken captive by the Taliban have been interrogated 29 times since they were imprisoned more than two months a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"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":[46,1879,4,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/70952","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\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70953,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70952\/revisions\/70953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}