{"id":72971,"date":"2025-07-21T06:37:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/20\/children-of-elderly-uk-couple-jailed-by-taliban-call-for-release-before-they-die-in-custody"},"modified":"2025-07-21T06:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:37:43","slug":"children-of-elderly-uk-couple-jailed-by-taliban-call-for-release-before-they-die-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72971","title":{"rendered":"Children of elderly UK couple jailed by Taliban call for release before they \u2018die in custody\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbie Reynolds, 76, and husband Peter, 80, have been held for five-and-a-half months without charge <\/p>\n<p>The children of an elderly couple imprisoned by the Taliban in Afghanistan have urged the group to release the pair before they \u201cdie in custody\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They said the UN would be making a statement on Monday calling for the immediate release of Barbie Reynolds, 76, and her husband Peter, 80, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/10\/peter-barbie-reynolds-british-couple-interrogated-taliban-since-imprisonment\">who were arrested<\/a> as they travelled to their home in Bamyan province, central Afghanistan, in February.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/20\/children-of-elderly-uk-couple-jailed-by-taliban-call-for-release-before-they-die-in-custody\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbie Reynolds, 76, and husband Peter, 80, have been held for five-and-a-half months without charge The children of an elderly couple imprisoned by the Taliban in Afghanistan have urged the group to release the pair before they \u201cdie in custody\u201d.They s&#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":[46,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","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\/72971","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=72971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72972,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72971\/revisions\/72972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}