The UK government is “in negotiations” after reports that three British men are being held by the Taliban in Afghanistan, the home secretary said on Sunday.
The Presidium Network, a UK-based non-profit organisation, named one of the men as Kevin Cornwell, a 53-year-old charity medic from Middlesbrough.
Presidium said it is assisting Cornwell and another unnamed British man, who were detained by Taliban secret police on Jan. 11.
The organisation also confirmed that a third Briton—Miles Routledge—is in Taliban custody.
Routledge, 23, is a British holidaymaker from Birmingham who received widespread attention and criticism on social media in August 2021 having travelled to Afghanistan despite the Taliban’s rapid military advances across the nation….