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An old British couple who had arrived in England after being detained in the maximum security prison of the Taliban “happy to be free”, their son told Sky News.
Barbie Reynolds, 76, and her husband Peter, 80, were arrested in February after spending several decades in Afghanistan, where they have double citizenship.
They were detained at no cost before being released from detention on Friday and flown to Qatar, where they were reunite with their daughterBefore flying back to Heathrow airport on Saturday.
The couple’s son, Jonathan Reynolds, told Sky News: “They are only happy to be free … they are very happy to see their children and grandchildren and great -grandchildren, the people they want to visit and wonder if they have ever seen them again.”
Jonathan, who spoke to his parents from Wyoming in the US in a facetime call with some of his siblings, said: “I have seen their photos in the hospital bed in question.
Peter Reynolds enjoyed breakfast after his release
He described some of the conditions of his parents who had been detained in “a large maximum security prison with thousands of inmates”.
“My father described the handcuffs or chained to other criminals. And, one point he has his chest hair torn,” he said.
“He was beaten to the head. And, then they were moved, to more than a safe house.”
Peter Reynolds received a hospital examination
But Jonathan said his parents maintain their English politeness even when calling him from a payment phone in the prison page, with his father asked: “Now the right time?”
“That’s really really, ‘Yes, not too bad. Where did the queue come out of here?'”
The British government advised British citizens not to travel to Afghanistan.
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Couple who were released reunited with girls
Abdul Qahar Balki, Spokesperson at Taliban The Government Foreign Ministry, said in a statement posted on X that the couple “violated Afghan’s law” and was released from prison after a court hearing.
He did not say what law allegedly had been violated by the couple.
Sky Correspondent Cordelia Lynch Being at Kabul Airport when the released couple arrived and departed.
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Sky’s Cordy Lynch spoke to the released couple
Mr. Reynolds told him: “We are very grateful.”
His wife added: “We have been treated very well. We are looking forward to seeing our children.
“We hope to return to Afghanistan if we can. We are Afghan citizens.”
The couple has lived Afghanistan For 18 years and run an organization called rebuild, which provides education and training programs.
They have been together since the 1960s and married in the capital of Afghanistan in 1970.
