Ex-hostage Joshua Boyle charged with sex assault, confinementA Canadian man recently freed with his American wife and children after years being held hostage in Afghanistan has been arrested and faces at least a dozen charges including sexual assault. Joshua Boyle's lawyer Eric Granger says he also faces assault and forcible confinement charges. Boyle told The Associated Press in October that his wife had been hospitalised in Ottawa, but did not specify why she was taken to the hospital. "My wife has been through hell, and she has to be my first priority right now,'' Boyle wrote then. Pakistani troops rescued the family in an operation October 11 aimed at their captors from the Taliban-linked Haqqani group.

Source: Stuff January 02, 2018 23:31 UTC