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Outlook: Kept In a Hole By The Taliban

Pierre Borghi

22/05/2013

Kept In a Hole By The Taliban

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Pierre Borghi, a French photographer, spent five months chained up in holes underground

Pierre Borghi, a French photographer, spent five months chained up in holes underground before escaping.

Pierre Borghi, a French photographer and aid worker, was kidnapped by the Taliban last November. He spent most of the next five months chained up in holes in the ground. News of his captivity was deliberately kept quiet by the French government who in private were refusing to meet the kidnappers' demands. Pierre managed to escape in April.

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