{"id":8586,"date":"2019-09-06T04:14:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T19:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/05\/canada-josh-boyle-denies-assaulting-wife-taliban-hostage-release"},"modified":"2019-09-06T04:14:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T19:14:51","slug":"canadian-man-held-hostage-by-taliban-denies-assaulting-wife-after-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8586","title":{"rendered":"Canadian man held hostage by Taliban denies assaulting wife after release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trial testimony wraps up in case of Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman, who married in 2011 and were kidnapped in Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>A Canadian man once held hostage with his American wife in Afghanistan denied assaulting her following their release, in trial testimony that wrapped up on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Boyle, 35, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jan\/03\/joshua-boyle-freed-taliban-hostage-arrested-for-sexual-assault\">arrested and charged with assault, sexual assault and forcible confinement<\/a> at the end of 2017 just two months after he and his wife Caitlan Coleman, 33, returned to Canada after their five-year hostage ordeal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/05\/canada-josh-boyle-denies-assaulting-wife-taliban-hostage-release\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trial testimony wraps up in case of Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman, who married in 2011 and were kidnapped in AfghanistanA Canadian man once held hostage with his American wife in Afghanistan denied assaulting her following their release, in trial te&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"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":[46,246,244,61,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-americas","category-canada","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\/8586","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\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8588,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586\/revisions\/8588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}