Thousands of inmates getting vocational training
More than 2,000 prisoners are receiving vocational training in prisons across Afghanistan, the Jails Regulatory Authority chief said on Monday.
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40 prisoners released from Kandahar jail
Forty inmates held in the central jail of southern Kandahar province since past four months have been released, an official said on Wednesday. The prisoners were announced innocent after Prisons Affairs Reform Delegation reviewed their cases. The…
269 more Hezb-i-Islami prisoners to be set free
KABUL (HIA), President Ashraf Ghani’s office said on Wednesday. Releasing HIA prisoners was part of a landmark peace deal between the government and the HIA signed in September. The decision came at a National Security Council (NSC) meeting chaired by…
71 pardoned prisoners released from Herat Jail
Seventy-one, including five women, have been set free from the central jail in western Herat province after they were pardoned under a presidential decree, an official said on Wednesday. The Presidential decree pardoning the inmates has been…
71 pardoned prisoners released from Herat Jail
Seventy-one, including five women, have been set free from the central jail in western Herat province after they were pardoned under a presidential decree, an official said on Wednesday. The Presidential decree pardoning the inmates has been…
Faryab police say 2 correctional centre inmates flee
Two juvenile inmates have fled the main correctional centre in the capital of northwestern Faryab province, police said on Monday. Habibullah and Fareed -- both under 18 years of age -- had been jailed on rape and robbery…
Pul-i-Charkhi prisoners on hunger strike over conditions
Hundreds of prisoners at the Pul-i-Charkhi jail on the eastern outskirts of central capital Kabul have been denying food since last night, sources said on Monday, but the jail’s officials rejected the hunger strike claim. One of the…
Ghani reviewing cases of death row prisoners
After branding militants as terrorists, President Ashraf Ghani has begun reviewing cases of death row insurgents, the Presidential Palace said on Thursday. The president’s deputy spokesman, Shah Hussain Murtazawi, told a news conference in Kabul that the president…
