OTTAWA—A newly released video shows a Canadian man and his American wife, held captive in Afghanistan for almost four years, pleading for government help to save their lives.
In the video, Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman sombrely warn that they and their two children will be killed by their captors unless Kabul abandons its policy of executing captured prisoners.
They call on Canada and the United States to pressure Afghanistan into changing its policy, saying their kidnappers are terrified of being executed by the state.
The video, uploaded to YouTube, came to public attention through the Maryland-based Site Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist activity online.
Boyle and Coleman were seized in 2012 during a trip that took them to several central Asian countries.
In October that year, just before the pair went missing, Boyle sent Coleman’s family a message from an Internet cafe in what he described as an “unsafe” part of Afghanistan.
