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"At one point in the five and a half months they have been imprisoned in
Afghanistan, Barbie and Peter Reynolds were kept in underground cells, deprived
of sunlight for six weeks.
Their health is deteriorating rapidly. Peter, 80, has been chained and
shackled, and recently had convulsions on the floor, much to the alarm of
Barbie, 75, who herself has suffered from malnourishment and reports her hands
and feet have turned blue.
“There’s a chance they die in there, and it’s escalating pretty fast,” their
youngest son, Jonathan, 45, said. “They need to get to the hospital
immediately.”
Since the British couple’s arrest on 1 February, the Reynolds family have been
thrown into a nightmare, watching from afar as their elderly parents have
struggled in a brutal prison system where they are being been held without
charge.
At first, Peter and Barbie would call their family regularly from prison but
there has been no contact from them for more than a month, and the UN has
intervened to warn they may die in “degrading conditions” if they do not
receive hospital treatment soon.
Officials from the British Foreign Office met the couple in prison last week,
but there has still been no official confirmation of plans for their release.
The couple have lived in Afghanistan for 18 years, running training and
education programmes."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
