{"id":79738,"date":"2025-09-21T07:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=79738"},"modified":"2025-09-21T07:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:03:16","slug":"we-thought-we-would-be-executed-elderly-british-couple-detained-by-taliban-say-they-feared-for-their-lives-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/21\/we-thought-we-would-be-executed-elderly-british-couple-detained-by-taliban-say-they-feared-for-their-lives-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We thought we would be executed\u2019: Elderly British couple detained by Taliban say they feared for their lives in 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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/09\/1600x900\/skynews-barbie-peter-heathrow_7026302.jpg?20250920145257\" alt=\"'Delighted to be free': Elderly British couple who were detained by ...\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An elderly British couple who were detained by the Taliban for eight months have said they feared they would be executed in the first interview since their release. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/we-thought-we-would-be-executed-elderly-british-couple-detained-by-taliban-say-they-feared-for-their-lives-in-jail\/ar-AA1MXHw8?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=68cfa19098f1433d9e2d216c7a251eba&amp;ei=30\">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>An elderly British couple who were detained by the Taliban for eight months have said they feared they would be executed in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79738","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\/09\/Old-couple-released-Qatar.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79738","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=79738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79739,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79738\/revisions\/79739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}