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According to an unpublished UN report, Afghan prisons are allegedly torturing the detainees. However Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry and the Intelligence Agency have refuted these claims, stating that the allegations are politically motivated to cause problems in handover of security control back to the Afghans by 2014.
Afghan government, despite rejecting the UN report claim to have given full support to the researchers making the report on Afghan prisons. Head of the NDS, Rahmatullah Nabil who is in charge of the majority of jails where prisoner mistreatment has been reported has said that he had received 600 reports from the UN and various other human rights groups, however none reported such problems.
The interior Minister, Bismillah Mohammadi held a news conference in Kabul over this issue and said “We consider these [allegations] unfounded excuses for not transferring the prisoners and prisons to the Afghans, and it will damage the process,”
Transfer to Afghan prisons had already been stopped in July. The aftermath of this yet-unpublished report has added eight more prisons to that list which include Herat, Khost, Lagman, Kapisa and Takhar, as well as the NDS’ Counter-Terrorism prison, known as Department 124.
NATO had been encouraged to quit prisoner transfers. The International Security and Assistance Force has also stalled its transfer of prisoners to the Kunduz and Tarin Kowt jails.
The UN report is set to be published in the coming week.
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