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About Dayna Curry
- Dayna Curry (born November 4, 1971) is an American citizen, who was held a prisoner by Taliban government of Afghanistan in 2001.Curry was raised in Forest Hills, Tennessee.
- In 1989, she graduated from Brentwood High School in Brentwood, Tennessee and went to Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
- A social work major, Dayna volunteered at the Waco Center for Youth (a residential facility treats teenagers with emotional and behavioral problems) while she was attending Baylor.
- After graduation, Curry took a job as a social worker at a high school for troubled teens in Waco. Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer got to know each other in Waco when they both joined the Antioch Community Church, an evangelical, non-denominational church. In 2001, Curry and Heather Mercer, along with four German and two Australian aid workers were arrested with them.
- The aid workers, who were employed by the German-based Shelter Now International, were arrested in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 3, 2001 by the ruling Taliban regime.
- They were charged with preaching Christianity in the strict Islamic state.
- The two were visiting a private home in Kabul when they were arrested.
- The Taliban, which forbid foreigners from visiting local homes, allege that the two women went beyond their activities with helping the needy and began spreading the Christian gospel, a crime under Taliban law.
- The women had been showing the Jesus film. A joint trial for the imprisoned aid workers began September 1 in Kabul.
- At first, it appeared that their punishment might be minor, a short time in prison followed by expulsion from the country.
- Then came the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon.
- Their trial was suspended, and their relatives were ordered out of Kabul.
- After more than three months of confinement in Taliban prisons they were picked up on November 15, 2001, by the U.S.
- military.
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