{"id":73085,"date":"2025-07-26T15:42:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/26\/shackled-malnourished-and-suffering-convulsions-son-of-uk-couple-imprisoned-in-afghanistan-warns-situation-escalating-and-they-could-die"},"modified":"2025-07-26T15:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:42:23","slug":"shackled-malnourished-and-suffering-convulsions-son-of-uk-couple-imprisoned-in-afghanistan-warns-situation-escalating-and-they-could-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73085","title":{"rendered":"Shackled, malnourished and suffering convulsions: son of UK couple imprisoned in Afghanistan warns situation \u2018escalating\u2019 and they could die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbie and Peter Reynolds, who were arrested by the Taliban in February, were kept underground for six weeks without daylight, their son says<\/p>\n<p>At one point in the five and a half months they have been imprisoned in Afghanistan, Barbie and Peter Reynolds were kept in underground cells, deprived of sunlight for six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Their health is deteriorating rapidly. Peter, 80, has been chained and shackled, and recently had convulsions on the floor, much to the alarm of Barbie, 75, who herself has suffered from malnourishment and reports her hands and feet have turned blue.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/26\/shackled-malnourished-and-suffering-convulsions-son-of-uk-couple-imprisoned-in-afghanistan-warns-situation-escalating-and-they-could-die\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbie and Peter Reynolds, who were arrested by the Taliban in February, were kept underground for six weeks without daylight, their son saysAt one point in the five and a half months they have been imprisoned in Afghanistan, Barbie and Peter Reynolds &#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":[46,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/73085","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=73085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73086,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73085\/revisions\/73086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}