<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman on Sunday said the UK government was “in negotiations” after three British men were detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Media reports have identified the men as charity medic Kevin Cornwell, 53, the unnamed manager of a hotel for aid workers and YouTube star Miles Routledge.</div><div><br></div><div>“The government is in negotiations and working hard to ensure people’s safety is upheld,” Braverman told Sky News.</div><div><br></div><div>The non-profit group the Presidium Network said on Twitter on Saturday it had been “working closely with two of the families.”</div><div><br></div><div>“We are working hard to secure consular contact with British nationals detained in Afghanistan and we are supporting families,” the UK’s foreign ministry added in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>Scott Richards of the Presidium Network told Sky News: “We believe they are in good health and being well treated.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have no reason to believe they’ve been subject to any negative treatment such as torture and we’re told that they are as good as can be expected in such circumstances.”</div><div><br></div><div>He added, however, that there had been “no meaningful contact” between authorities and the two men Presidium was assisting.</div><div><br></div><div>These two men are believed to have been held by the Taliban since January.</div><div><br></div><div>It is not known how long the third man has been held for.</div><div><br></div><div>Presidium on Twitter urged the Taliban to be “considerate of what we believe is a misunderstanding and release these men.”</div><div><br></div><div>Last year the Taliban freed a veteran television cameraman and four other British nationals it had held for six months.</div><div><br></div><div>Peter Jouvenal was one of a “number” of Britons that the government in London said had been held by the hard-line Islamists.</div><div><br></div><div>Britain’s foreign ministry said the five “had no role in the UK government’s work in Afghanistan and traveled to Afghanistan against the UK government’s travel advice.”</div><div><br></div><div>“This was a mistake,” it added.</div><div><br></div><div>At the time, Afghanistan government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid accused the Britons of “carrying out activities against the country’s laws and traditions of the people of Afghanistan.”</div><div><br></div><div>“After consecutive meetings between the IEA (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) and Britain the said persons were released... and handed over to their home country,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>“They promised to abide by the laws of Afghanistan, its traditions and culture of the people and not to violate them again,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>The Taliban returned to power in August 2021 and has since sparked global outrage with its policies in particular toward women and girls. According to AFP reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>