Tag: Captivity
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‘An excruciating process’: U.S. government negotiating release of Pueblo man detained by Taliban
As a Pueblo-based man sits in isolated captivity at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan — a prisoner of the Taliban since last January — his family in the U.S. still does not know why he was detained, or when he will be able to come home. On or about Jan. 26, 2025, Dennis Coyle, an…
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Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, animal rights nonprofit to argue elephant case before Colorado Supreme Court
A legal battle between Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and an animal rights organization is set to go before the Colorado Supreme Court on Thursday. The high court will hear oral arguments from the Colorado Springs-based zoo and the Nonhuman Rights Project, a nonprofit based in Coral Springs, Fla., over the treatment of five African elephants. It…