Inmates protest innocence to Tribune’s Kim Barker, but say injustices drive them to militancy
Kim Barker is the Tribune’s South Asia correspondent.
PUL-I-CHARKHI, Afghanistan — Like prisoners everywhere, Payanda Muhammad says he is innocent. No way did he have anything to do with the Taliban or blowing up a sugar factory in Baghlan province last year, [...]
KABUL: National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) the other day helped release of 18 Afghan prisoners who served from two to four years jail terms in the heavily guarded US cells in Bagram airfield.
Speaking at a ceremony here, Said Sharif Yousufi an official in the National Reconciliation Commission said most of the freed afghan nationals, arrested for [...]
Source: Pajhwak Afghan News Agency
By Janullah Hashimzada & Najib Khilwatgar
PESHAWAR/KABUL (PAN): A son-in-law of former Prime Minister Gulbadin Hekmatyar, fugitive leader of the Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA), has been released after fours years of detention.
A Peshawar-based HIA leader confided to Pajhwok Afghan News on Thursday that Dr Ghairat Bahir - who was handed over to US [...]
This brings new meaning to “Leave no child behind”…………..
NEW YORK (AP)–The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being “unlawful enemy combatants” in detention centers in Iraq and has about 10 detained at the U.S. base at Bagram, Afghanistan, the U.S. has told the United Nations.
A total of 2,500 youths under the age [...]
By Jon Boone
Conditions at Policharki prison?s Block D, where prisoners transferred from US custody in Guant?namo Bay and at Bagram Air Force Base are housed, are some of the very best in Afghanistan. (Since Bagram is one of the ones they’re comparing it to, that’s not saying much!!) But human rights investigators have expressed grave [...]
NEWS CENTRAL/S. ASIA Freed Guantanamo men face trial
Five Afghan detainees who were released from Guantanamo Bay last week have been sent to jail upon their arrival in Afghanistan.
They had been detained at Guantanamo Bay with the Al Jazeera cameraman, Sami al-Hajj.
Al-Hajj and the Afghan detainees were on the same plane after they were released [...]
Sahr MuhammedAlly [senior associate, Law and Security program, Human Rights First]: “While pre-trial motions continue at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, at other end of the globe in Afghanistan more than 60 former Guantánamo and Bagram detainees have been convicted based on little more than mere allegations by the United States. After years of detention in U.S. [...]
By Sayed Salahuddin
KABUL, April 14 (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross has urged the Afghan military, foreign troops and Taliban insurgents to spare civilians during combat, the organisation’s global chief said on Monday.
Jakob Kellenberger also said suspected Taliban prisoners held by the U. S. military at Bagram were concerned about their fate [...]
OTTAWA - The federal government is trying to derail hearings by the Military Police Complaints Commission into the transfer of detainees by members of the Canadian Forces to Afghan authorities, where they could be tortured.
In an application filed Friday to the Federal Court, the attorney general argues that under the National Defence Act, the complaints [...]
By CANDACE RONDEAUX, JOSH WHITE And JULIE TATE |Washington Post
KABUL, Afghanistan — - Afghan detainees held at the U. S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are being transferred home to face closed-door trials in which they are often denied access to defense attorneys and the U. S. evidence being used against them, according [...]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP)
A human rights group charged on Thursday that Afghanistan is prosecuting detainees transferred from U.S.-run prisons in arbitrary and unfair trials with little evidence.
Human Rights First lauded the Afghan government’s decision to try the detainees, formerly held in the prisons at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Bagram, Afghanistan, in a court of law. But [...]
Former U. S. Detainees Convicted Without Evidence More About Law and Security
NEW YORK, April 10, 2008– The United States government contributes to violations of fair trial standards in Afghanistan by failing to provide sufficient evidence in the prosecution of former Bagram and Guantánamo detainees now being tried in Afghan courts, despite its substantial investment in [...]
KABUL, March 17 (RIA Novosti) - Over 70 inmates at Afghanistan’s main high-security jail have stitched their mouths shut and gone on a hunger strike, national media said on Monday.
The incident at the Pul-i-Charkhi jail comes four days after inmates of cellblock 4, where Taliban militants are held, rioted against the decision of NATO officers [...]
His thirst for scapegoats shows how poorly George Bush understands the meaning of Easter.
By Giles Fraser the vicar of Putney giles.fraser@btinternet.com
Somewhere in the Middle East, Jesus Christ is strapped to a bench, his head wrapped in clingfilm. He furiously sucks against the plastic. A hole is pierced, but only so that a filthy rag can [...]
KABUL –Scores of inmates at Afghanistan’s main jail, which holds Taliban prisoners, are reportedly on hunger strike with some having sewn their mouths shut, a parliamentarian said Tuesday.
Afghan media said the strike began after guards arrested visitors to the Pul-i-Charki prison following the escape of some inmates.
Authorities have posted extra security outside the prison on [...]
Kabul, 13 March (AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - Prisoners held in Kabul’s controversial Pul-i-Charkhi jail rioted late on Thursday when NATO forces tried to shift Taliban inmates for interrogation.
Unnamed sources told Adnkronos International (AKI) that inmates in block 4 of the prison resisted their removal by NATO personnel, alleging that [...]
They allegedly paid the jail chief USD20,000 in front money while the rest of the amount was to be given later on.
Habibur Rehman Ibrahimi & Akram Noorzai -
KABUL: Five Taliban militants, who escaped from the heavily-fortified Pul-i-Charkhi Prison on the eastern periphery of Kabul a day earlier, had been sentenced to death and long jail [...]
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