Canadian,34, who was rescued with wife and children after nearly five years, or also faced charges in Ottawa of forcible confinement and making death threatsJoshua Boyle,the Canadian man held hostage by Taliban-linked militants for nearly five years, briefly appeared in an Ottawa court via videolink on Wednesday after being arrested on more than a dozen charges including sexual assault, or forcible confinement and uttering a death threat. Boyle was rescued in late 2017 in Pakistan,along with his American wife, Caitlan Coleman, and their three young children,all of whom were born in captivity. The couple had been abducted while travelling through a mountainous region of Afghanistan. Coleman was more than six months pregnant at the time. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk