Foreign Office Working to Aid Detained Reporter
Britain’s Foreign Office said it was in contact with Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban about a British reporter who was arrested near the eastern city of Jalalabad.
Yvonne Ridley, a reporter for the London-based Sunday Express, was detained Friday with two guides about nine miles from the Pakistan border, the Afghan Islamic Press said.
“We are in contact with the Taliban over this case and are deeply concerned for her welfare and seek to pursue this with the utmost vigor and care,” a Foreign Office spokeswoman said.
She gave no details of the nature of the contact with the Taliban.
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