Prisoners

KABUL): “Thousands” of prisoners at the Pul-i-Charkhi detention centre west of Kabul have been on hunger strike over the past five days, with hundreds sewing

KABUL (PAN): The video shows two inmates in Kabul’s Pul-i-Charki prison go on hunger strike and sew their lips to protest denial of theirs rights.

WASHINGTON (PAN): The White House on Monday said President Barack Obama remained committed to closing Guantanamo detention center in Cuba, but accused the Congress of

KABUL): Protesting detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Saturday clashed with military guards after they were moved from communal situation into single cells, some forcibly,

KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Three prisoners had escaped from the central jail in southern Kandahar province by squeezing through a gate, despite tight security measures inside

KABUL): President Hamid Karzai on Saturday ordered the creation of a board for investigating cases of inmates of the Bagram prison in central Parwan province,

LASHKARGAH (PAN): A 26-year-old resident of southern Helmand province, Noor Ahmad, who was released from 45 days in Afghan Taliban’s captivity in the southern Pakistani

KABUL): The US military would resume and complete the transfer of all inmates held at the controversial Bagram jail in central Parwan province to the

KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): More than 100 prisoners are kept under a makeshift arrangement made of wood and clothes in the central jail in northern Takhar

KABUL (HPC), some Kabul-based political commentators alleged on Wednesday, accusing Islamabad of perusing its old policy of seeking strategic depth in Afghanistan. Pakistan announced last

KABUL): A senior Afghan prison official on Monday rejected as untrue a United Nations report suggesting police and intelligence men continue to torture and abuse

KABUL, on Sunday called torture one the most serious violations of human rights and dignity. While welcoming the UN’s efforts to monitor detention centres, the