You all helped secure Peter’s release by participating in the six-month-long campaign to get him home, and so I thought you would be interested to read his first in depth interview, conducted by Ed Girardet, who is chief editor of Global Geneva, a forum supporting quality foreign reporting.
 
Peter’s voice comes through very clearly; wise, compassionate, and insightful into the broader issues at stake in today’s Afghanistan. And I am sure you will find he has not lost his sense of humour: with typical sangfroid he says the hardest thing he had to endure was reading Harry Potter three times! But one of his biggest insights is that the conditions of his incarceration, and four other Britons, were not as harsh as we had been led to believe. Their Taliban captor, a Guantanamo Bay detainee for 12 years, had apparently vowed not to treat others as he had been treated by his American jailers.
 
Read the story here.

In the course of this journey, trying to help Peter get home, we met many people, and came to know of other Britons unjustly incarcerated in other countries. 

I am talking about James Fitton, cruelly jailed in Iraq for 15 years, for innocently picking up some pottery shards.

And Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a prisoner of conscience for three years in Egypt, now on hunger strike and in a perilous situation.
 
And Jagtar Singh Johal, arbitrarily detained, and tortured, in India.

So while we celebrate the return of the 'Kabul Five', we won't forget that others have yet to make it back to their loved ones. And again, I humbly thank you for your support for Peter and his family.