Fritogs från talibanerna – misstänks för övergrepp
Kanadensaren Joshua Boyle som tillsammans med sin familj fritogs efter nära fem år som gisslan i Afghanistan misstänks nu för flera brott. Boyle har gripits i Ottawa och riskerar åtal för bland annat sexuella övergrepp och olaga frihetsberövande. Han ska också ha uttalat dödshot mot polisen.
Hans fru säger i ett uttalande till Toronto Star att hon och barnen är i gott tillstånd. Hon vill inte kommentera misstankarna annat än att orsakerna går att hitta i ”det trauma han var tvungen att uthärda i så många år”.
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Kidnappningen av Joshua Boyle och Caitlan Coleman
Wikipedia (en)
In October 2012, Canadian-American couple Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman were kidnapped in Ghazni Province of Afghanistan while on a backpacking trip through Central and South Asia. Joshua Boyle, a Canadian citizen from St. Catharines, Ontario, and his wife Caitlan Coleman, a U.S. citizen from Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, were held captive by the Taliban from October 2012 to October 2017. Their three children were born in captivity.
On October 11, 2017, Pakistani forces located the family in Kurram Agency and rescued them, after receiving intelligence from Afghanistan-based U.S. forces that the hostages were in northwestern Pakistan.
There was no indication that any ransom had been paid and Boyle reported that he had been in the trunk of a vehicle during a shootout; five Haqqani members were reportedly killed. Subsequently, U.S. officials lauded Pakistan's military intervention. In late 2017, a White House report included the release of the family as one of the foreign policy achievements of President Donald Trump.
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