A regional official tells CBS News the aid workers were arrested for 'promoting Christianity,' but the nonprofit group involved says it's received no information.
U.S. woman arrested in Afghanistan among 18 aid workers held for"promoting Christianity," local official saysAlmost 20 staff members of a charity organization operating in central Afghanistan, including one U.S. national, have been arrested by regional officials in the, a spokesman for the provincial government in Ghor province told CBS News on Monday.
A local employee of The International Assistance Mission in Ghor province also told CBS News, on the condition that he not be named, that the detained foreign employee was a U.S. woman who works at the office. Taliban chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told CBS News on Monday that Afghanistan's central government was still gathering information about the detention of the IAM employees in Ghor, and he declined to provide any statement on their arrest or the status of the investigation being carried out by the country's intelligence services.
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