Taliban says freed Canadian hostage’s allegations of rape and murder are false
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A spokesman for the Taliban is denying the allegations of a freed Canadian hostage who says his wife was raped and his daughter killed by their abductors.
Upon his return to Canada Friday, Joshua Boyle told reporters that during his five years in captivity, held by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network in Afghanistan, his wife’s rape was assisted by the captain of the guard and supervised by the commandant of the network.
He said the Haqqani leadership authorized the murder of his daughter in retaliation for his refusal to accept an offer from the kidnappers, but did not elaborate.
However, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has released a statement saying Caitlan Coleman had a “natural miscarriage” after an illness that couldn’t be treated because they were in a remote area with no doctors.
