{"id":74149,"date":"2025-04-06T16:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T16:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=74149"},"modified":"2025-04-06T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T16:26:14","slug":"briton-held-by-taliban-with-wife-describes-dire-conditions-in-kabul-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/06\/briton-held-by-taliban-with-wife-describes-dire-conditions-in-kabul-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Briton held by Taliban with wife describes dire conditions in Kabul jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1CnRjb.img?w=534&amp;h=320&amp;m=6&amp;x=446&amp;y=176&amp;s=913&amp;d=384\" alt=\"Peter and Barbie Reynolds have been running projects in Afghan schools for 18 years and decided to stay after the Taliban took power in 2021. Photograph: BBC\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Briton held captive by the Taliban for more than nine weeks has said he is living in dire conditions in a prison in Kabul, describing it as \u201cthe nearest thing to hell I can imagine\u201d.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/briton-held-by-taliban-with-wife-describes-dire-conditions-in-kabul-jail\/ar-AA1CnMZT?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=16d7bc98ddc6431eaa8267ddca54dfc7&amp;ei=9\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A Briton held captive by the Taliban for more than nine weeks has said he is living in dire conditions in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/elderly-couple-afghan.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74161,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74149\/revisions\/74161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}