Barbie Reynolds, 76, and her husband Peter, 80, had been arrested in February after spending many years in Afghanistan, the place they’ve twin citizenship.
That they had been held with out cost earlier than being launched from detention on Friday and flown to Qatar, the place they had been reunited with their daughter, earlier than flying again to Heathrow Airport on Saturday.
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Former Taliban detainees again in UK
Jonathan, who spoke to his dad and mom from Wyoming within the US in a FaceTime name with a few of his siblings, stated: “I’ve seen photographs of them in hospital beds getting checked. I’ve seen them having full English breakfasts. So they’re jumping on that.”
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Peter Reynolds enjoys breakfast after his launch
He described among the circumstances his dad and mom had been saved underneath in a “big maximum security prison with thousands of inmates”.
“My dad described being handcuffed or chained to other criminals. And, one point he had his chest hairs ripped out,” he stated.
“He was hit in the head. And, then they were moved, to more of a safe house.”
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Peter Reynolds will get hospital check-up
However Jonathan stated his dad and mom retained their British politeness even when calling him from a payphone within the jail yard, together with his dad asking: “Is now a good time?”.
“It was totally, ‘Yeah, not too bad. Where’s the queue to get out of here?'”
The UK authorities advises British nationals to not journey to Afghanistan.
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Freed couple reunites with daughter
Abdul Qahar Balkhi, a spokesperson on the Taliban authorities’s international ministry, stated in a press release posted on X that the couple “violated Afghan law” and had been launched from jail after a courtroom listening to.
He didn’t say what regulation the couple had been alleged to have damaged.
Sky correspondent Cordelia Lynch was at Kabul Airport because the freed couple arrived and departed.
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Sky’s Cordy Lynch speaks to launched couple
Mr Reynolds advised her: “We are just very thankful.”
His spouse added: “We’ve been treated very well. We’re looking forward to seeing our children.
“We’re wanting ahead to returning to Afghanistan if we are able to. We’re Afghan residents.”
The couple have lived in Afghanistan for 18 years and run an organisation referred to as Rebuild, which offers schooling and coaching programmes.
They’ve been collectively for the reason that Nineteen Sixties and married within the Afghan capital in 1970.
