The Afghan Taliban government yesterday released US detainee Dennis Coyle after more than a year in detention, but Washington said the move was not sufficient to lift its recent designation of Kabul as a “state sponsor of wrongful detention”.
The Taliban foreign ministry said in a statement that Afghan authorities had received a letter from Coyle’s mother requesting her son be pardoned and released on the occasion of Eid Al Fitr, following which the Supreme Court of Afghanistan “deemed the period of his detention sufficient and decided to release him”.
The US government censured Afghanistan earlier this month over its detention of American citizens, with US officials warning they could ban US passport holders from travelling to Afghanistan if it did not comply.
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