Ill UK boy's parents freed from custody in Spain

SOTO DEL REAL, Spain (AP) — The British parents who took their critically ill child for treatment abroad without doctors’ consent were released from custody in Spain on Tuesday after authorities in the United Kingdom dropped charges of child cruelty against them.

The National Court in Madrid said in a statement that a judge ordered the couple’s immediate release after receiving official notification from Britain that authorities there were no longer seeking their extradition to answer charges. Their 5-year-old son Ashya, who has a severe brain tumor, has been cared for in a hospital in Malaga, 500 kilometers (310 miles) from Madrid while they were incarcerated.