AN ELDERLY Brit couple wrongfully jailed by the Taliban for eight months have finally been freed.
Peter Reynolds, 80, and his wife Barbie, 76, were and tossed into Afghanistan’s most notorious prison.
The couple moved to Afghanistan in 2009, where they run training project
The couple have been safely released from detention following mediation led by Qatar, Sky News reports.
The parents-of-four had lived in Afghanistan for 18 years, managing training projects – but were kidnapped on February 1 with no explanation.
They were locked up separately at the maximum security Pul-e-Charkhi in Kabul, and later moved to an underground cell beneath the ‘s intelligence HQ.
They have been together since the 1960s and married in Kabul in 1970.
Barbie and Peter are now on their way home, where they will be reunited with their family.
The Reynolds were some of the only foreigners not to leave Afghanistan when the Taliban seized back power four years ago.
They had been living peaceful lives in the mountainous region of Bamain – famous for the giant Buddha statues blown up by the previous Taliban regime.
Their family said they had never encountered any trouble from the regime since settling there in 2009.
But Peter and Barbie were arrested on February 1 along with their interpreter, Jaya, and a visiting Chinese-American friend, Faye Hall.
The group was detained after flying in a small plane from Kabul to an airstrip near their home in the central province of Bamiyan.
They bundled into vans and were taken to separate parts of the maximum-security prison Pul-e-Charki.
On May 22, the couple were moved to the headquarters of the GDI — the General Directorate of Intelligence — and put in an underground cell.
Although the couple were moved together, they have had almost no access to phones since being moved.
It was initially thought they had been parenting skills to mothers.
The Taliban later bizarrely claimed the arrest was – though did not release them.
Hall, their interpretor, following a order.
More to follow… For the latest news on this story keep checking back at The Sun Online
is your go-to destination for the best celebrity news, real-life stories, jaw-dropping pictures and must-see video.
Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thesun and follow us from our main Twitter account at @TheSun .
