A British couple have been freed from months of detention in Afghanistan, to the “immense joy” of their family. The couple were arrested in February as they travelled to their home in Bamyan province, central Afghanistan. They had been held since then without charge and for a long period were separated and detained in a maximum-security prison. Accompanying the couple in Kabul, Richard Lindsay, the UK special envoy to Afghanistan, told Sky News: ““It’s up to the authorities here [in Kabul] to determine why they were detained. The family, however, pointed out that they were not aligned to any faith at the time of their arrest.