KABUL (Pajhwok): Attorney General Office (AGO) and Interior Ministry officials on Tuesday termed death row prisoners ’a huge issue’ and said 750 such inmates were awaiting execution of their punishment.
Deputy AGO Abdul Fatah Azizi and director general of prisons and lock ups Brig. Gen. Abdul Halem Kohistani appeared before the upper house after being summoned to brief lawmakers about the situation of prisoners and extradition of Afghan inmates from Iran.
Kohistani said the fate of 750 death row inmates kept in lock ups remained unknown . . .
