内容摘要：Barbie and Peter Reynolds remain in detention. The couple met in England, married in Kabul in 1970 and have run educational programmes in the region for years.

Barbie and Peter Reynolds remain in detention. The couple met in England, married in Kabul in 1970 and have run educational programmes in the region for years.

The Taliban Ministry of Education claims that around three million students in Afghanistan are enrolled in these religious educational centres.It has promised to reopen girls' schools under certain conditions, but this has yet to materialise.

Despite all the challenges Amina has faced – her health struggles and the education ban – she remains hopeful."I still believe that one day the Taliban will allow schools and universities to reopen," she says with conviction. "And I will realise my dream of becoming a heart surgeon."The daily English lessons that Shabana attends are the highlight of her day. Taking the bus in Kabul to the private course with her friends, chatting and laughing with them, learning something new for one hour each day - it’s a brief respite from the emptiness that has engulfed her life since the Taliban took over Afghanistan.

In another country, Shabana* would have been graduating from high school next year, pursuing her dream to get a business degree. In Afghanistan, she and all teenage girls have been barred from formal education for three years.Now even the small joys that were making life bearable are fraught with fear after a new law was announced saying if a woman is outside her home, even her voice must not be heard.

“When we got out, we’re scared. When we’re on the bus, we’re scared. We don’t dare to take down our masks. We even avoid speaking among ourselves, thinking that if someone from the Taliban hears us they could stop and question us,” she says.

The BBC has been in Afghanistan, allowing rare access to the country's women and girls - as well as Taliban spokespeople - reacting to the new law, which was imposed by the Taliban’s supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada.Coroner Karin Welsh said: "That man either fell or jumped from the eighth floor bedroom window and he also was found deceased.

"That's the totality of the information we have been able to glean from Nairobi."A post-mortem examination carried out when Ms Mitchell's body was returned to the UK found she died from a head injury and pressure on the neck.

Ms Welsh concluded that she was unlawfully killed.She passed on her condolences to Ms Mitchell's family and the coroner told her brother Pete Mitchel: "I know you still have questions, I hope they are answered for you."