Safi told Reuters he denied the allegations to the police and said he was caring for the baby, not kidnapping him. A spokesperson for the Red Cross said it does not comment on individual cases.įinally, after feeling they had run out of options, Razawi contacted the local Taliban police to report a kidnapping. The baby's family sought help from the Red Cross, which has a stated mission to help reconnect people separated by international crises, but said they received little information from the organization. Safi's brother, who was evacuated to California, said Safi and his family have no pending applications for U.S. Razawi said he traveled two days and two nights to the capital bearing gifts - including a slaughtered sheep, several pounds of walnuts and clothing - for Safi and his family.īut Safi refused to release Sohail, insisting he also wanted to be evacuated from Afghanistan with his family. They called the baby Mohammad Abed and posted pictures of all the children together on his Facebook page.Īfter the Reuters story about the missing child came out, some of Safi's neighbors - who had noticed his return from the airport months earlier with a baby - recognized the photos and posted comments about his whereabouts on a translated version of the article.Īhmadi asked his relatives still in Afghanistan, including his father-in-law Mohammad Qasem Razawi, 67, who lives in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, to seek out Safi and ask him to return Sohail to the family. Safi told Reuters that he took him to the doctor for a check-up after he was found and quickly incorporated the child into his family.

Hamid Safi, a 29-year-old taxi driver who had found baby Sohail Ahmadi in the airport, holds Sohail next to Sohail's grandfather Mohammad Qasem Razawi and a Taliban representative

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