Kabul: Afghanistan International Human Rights Commission highlights concerns about US policies on detainee transfers.
Report said detainees were tortured at nine National Directorate of Security (NDS) prisons and at several police centres, based on monitoring and interviews with more than 100 detainees between February 2011 and January 2012.
Report further said that the beatings, electric shocks, threatened or actual sexual abuse, and other forms of abuse, were used routinely to obtain confessions or other information.
Several methods of torture, previously denied by the NDS, such as electric shocks and threats of sexual abuses, were also confirmed in interviews.
According to French News wire service AFP “Torture, Transfers and Denial of Due Process”, also found “credible evidence” that some detainees transferred to Afghan authorities by international forces had been tortured.
Meanwhile a UN report released in last October accused the Afghan security forces of systematically torturing detainees, including children, in detention centres.
After that, the Commission said Nato’s US-led mission suspended all detainee transfers to facilities of concern, initiated a regime to address problems and proposed an ambitious monitoring programme.
But it said the monitoring system may not be sufficient and that the United States had failed to implement a monitoring procedure for detainees arrested by US troops, such as special forces, who operate outside the Nato mission.
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