U.N. Report Finds Widespread Torture

AFGHANISTAN

Updated Apr. 21, 2017 1:42PM EDT / Published Jan. 20, 2013 7:29AM EST

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A new U.N. report claims that widespread torture and abuse of detainees continues at Afghan police and intelligence facilities. Earlier this month President Hamid Karzai said that all detainees held by the U.S. and its allies would be transferred to Afghan custody. But the new allegations of torture could make such a transfer illegal. The 100-page report, which will be released on Monday, was based on several hundred interviews and about half of the interviewed detainees and former detainees alleged torture or abuse. In 2011, a similar report caused the U.S. to halt transfers of detainees to nine Afghan facilities.

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U.N. Report Finds Widespread Torture

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