GARDEZ (Pajhwok): Around 50 percent of prisoners in southeastern Paktia province lack access to defense lawyers and their cases are not processed on time, the Independent Human Rights Commission (IHRC)’s regional office said on Tuesday.
The IHRC said most of the prisoners held at the central jail in Gardez, the provincial capital, were kept without being tried and their cases investigated.
IHRC head for Paktia Noor Ahmad Shahim told Pajhwok Afghan News that dozens of prisoners had registered their complaints with the rights organization about not completing their cases in legal time.
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