{"id":72984,"date":"2025-07-21T22:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/21\/elderly-british-couple-face-dying-afghanistan-detention-peter-barbie-reynolds"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:59:10","slug":"elderly-british-couple-face-dying-in-afghanistan-detention-un-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72984","title":{"rendered":"Elderly British couple face dying in Afghanistan detention, UN experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights officials demand Peter and Barbie Reynolds be moved to hospital and out of \u2018degrading\u2019 jail conditions<\/p>\n<p>UN human rights experts have warned that an elderly British couple detained in Afghanistan may die in \u201cdegrading conditions\u201d as they demand they be moved to hospital for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Peter and Barbie Reynolds, aged 80 and 75, have been detained by the Taliban without charges in Afghanistan, where they lived, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/feb\/23\/british-couple-in-their-70s-arrested-by-the-taliban-in-afghanistan\">since February<\/a> and their health has rapidly deteriorated.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/21\/elderly-british-couple-face-dying-afghanistan-detention-peter-barbie-reynolds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights officials demand Peter and Barbie Reynolds be moved to hospital and out of \u2018degrading\u2019 jail conditionsUN human rights experts have warned that an elderly British couple detained in Afghanistan may die in \u201cdegrading conditions\u201d as they dema&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4855,"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-72984","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\/72984","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\/4855"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72985,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72984\/revisions\/72985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}