An older British couple of the Taliban The British Prime Minister Keir Starrer was published for unknown charges for eight months confirmed in an explanation on Friday.
“These long -awaited news will be a great relief for you and your family,” he said.
Peter Reynolds, 80, and his wife Barbie Reynolds, 76, lived in Afghanistan For 18 years and led an educational and training organization in the country’s central province of Bamiyan. They decided to stay in the country after the Taliban conquered power in 2021.
They were taken from your house on February 1, 2025.
Catar officials negotiated the couple’s release before returning to Great Britain.
Sarah Destle (L) sits with her parents Barbie (C) and Peter Reynolds, after they ended up at the airport in Doha on September 19, 2025. After several months in custody, Peter and Barbie Reynolds were freed after the mediation of Qatar in Afghanistan, an official with the knowledge of the release on Friday.
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“God is good, as they say in Afghanistan,” said Barbie Reynolds when she arrived at Kabul International Airport to leave the country, the Associated Press reported.
Mohammed bin Abdulaziz al-Khulaifi, Qatar’s Foreign Minister for Foreign Affairs, thanked the United Kingdom and the Taliban government in Afghanistan “For Fertile Cooperation” in the liberation of the Reynolds, also wrote the outlet and added that the couple are in Doha before they submit before Great Britain fly.
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Family members had asked for the couple’s release for months and were concerned about their health in the middle of reports on improper treatment.
While the Taliban rejected the allegations of abuse, they never explained what led to the couple’s detention.
In Doha before her parents’ arrival, the couple’s daughter said Sarah Destle, the family was grateful and relieved to bring their loved ones back after their “incomprehensible detention by the Taliban”.
Destle also thanked the Katari and the British governments for the release of their parents.
“This experience reminded us of the power of diplomacy, empathy and international cooperation,” she said.
Abdul Qahar Balkhi, a Taliban spokesman, thanked Qatar for his “sincere efforts and mediations” in relation to the Reynolds, who, as he said, was handed over to Richard Lindsay, the AP, the British special representative for Afghanistan, reported the ap.
He did not state which law the couple had supposedly broken.
Peter Reynolds (R) holds the hands of his daughter Sarah Destle after landing at Doha on September 19, 2025.
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In July, experts from the United Nations gave access to the Reynolds while they were imprisoned Physical and mental health Had deteriorated quickly and demanded that they are immediately moved to a hospital for treatment.
According to the expert group, the couple in underground cells were kept in a prison with maximum security without access to the sunlight until they were transferred to an above -ground block.
Before that, they were detained and kept separately.
Peter collapsed in prison, suffered two eye infections and had tremors in his head and over his left arm.
In addition to these “severe concerns” about Peter’s well -being, his children said that he was susceptible to skin cancer on the face, which would require immediate medical help.
Barbie, who has anemia, had suffered from deafness and malnutrition.
Jonathan Reynolds, the couple’s son, the BBC told In July, his parents’ life was in great danger.
“My father was chained to murderers and criminals,” he said.
– With files from the Associated Press
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