Voice of America: UN Report Finds Torture of Afghan Detainees

Voice of America Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries

UN Report Finds Torture of Afghan Detainees Jan 20th 2013, 22:48 The United Nations says torture is still widespread in Afghanistan's prisons, a year after the U.N. first documented abuse and the Karzai government promised to reform its detention practices. A report issued Sunday by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan found "credible and reliable evidence" that more than half of the 635 "conflict-related detainees" interviewed at 89 facilities across the country had been tortured. That is about the same proportion the U.N. ...

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