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A news agency report quoting the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press on Saturday said the Taleban regime could try the arrested British woman scribe for spying.
The British woman journalist was reportedly arrested on Friday for entering the country illegally.
The report quoted a Taleban official as saying Sunday Express reporter Yvonne Ridley was being held in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad and her case had been handed over to the Taleban intelligence department.
"She will be dealt with under the country's law," the report quoted the official as saying.
The report said Ridley had disguised herself underneath a burqa to enter the country, and could have been spying.
The charge of spying in Taleban-held Afghanistan carries the death penalty.
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