{"id":76816,"date":"2026-03-25T03:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/24\/taliban-us-academic-dennis-coyle"},"modified":"2026-03-25T03:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:42:23","slug":"taliban-release-us-academic-held-in-detention-for-more-than-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76816","title":{"rendered":"Taliban release US academic held in detention for more than a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Rubio welcomes release of Dennis Coyle, who was detained in January last year for violating unspecified laws<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban authorities have released the American academic Dennis Coyle after holding him for over a year, with the foreign ministry saying the release came on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the ministry said the academic researcher had been released in Kabul on Tuesday, following an appeal from his family and after Afghanistan\u2019s supreme court \u201cconsidered his previous imprisonment sufficient\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/24\/taliban-us-academic-dennis-coyle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Rubio welcomes release of Dennis Coyle, who was detained in January last year for violating unspecified lawsAfghanistan\u2019s Taliban authorities have released the American academic Dennis Coyle after holding him for over a year, with the foreign min&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":306,"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":[46,61,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76816","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\/306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76817,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76816\/revisions\/76817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}