{"id":13498,"date":"2025-09-22T00:59:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=13498"},"modified":"2025-09-22T00:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:29:04","slug":"fear-of-execution-british-couple-recount-harrowing-experience-in-taliban-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/fear-of-execution-british-couple-recount-harrowing-experience-in-taliban-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear of execution; British couple recount harrowing experience in Taliban prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fear of execution; British couple recount harrowing experience in Taliban prison.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barbie and Peter Reynolds, a British couple who were held by the Taliban for running a charity education program in Afghanistan, have said they were terrified of being executed while in custody.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peter Reynolds, 80, said: \u201cWe started to think we would never be released or we would be in prison until we were executed.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barbie Reynolds, 76, added that the most difficult moment was seeing her husband, shackled, trying to get into a Taliban car.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The couple, along with their translator and an American friend, were arrested on February 1 and were released after eight months in prison and returned to the UK.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They said they were given no explanation for their detention and that their experience paints a picture of the difficult conditions for prisoners in Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The incident has received widespread international media coverage, highlighting concerns about the security situation for foreign nationals in Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, after their release, the Reynolds couple are recounting their harrowing experience and emphasizing the importance of supporting educational and charitable programs in high-risk areas.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fear of execution; British couple recount harrowing experience in Taliban prison. Barbie and Peter Reynolds, a British couple who were held by the Taliban for running a charity education program in Afghanistan, have said they were terrified of being executed while in custody. Peter Reynolds, 80, said: \u201cWe started to think we would never be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13506,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498\/revisions\/13506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}