Prisoners

KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Some of protesting prisoners in the southern province of Kandahar could die if they did not call off their hunger strike, a

KANDAHAR CITY (PAN, an official said on Sunday. The inmates, most of them political prisoners, say they will continue the hunger strike and sew up

KABUL) on Tuesday rejected allegations that prisoners in Afghan jails are being mistreated. Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) alleged in a recnt report that

KABUL and the US on Friday formally signed a breakthrough agreement on the transfer of the US detention facility in central Parwan province to the

MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN): Fourteen prisoners were released and jail terms of another 40 inmates reduced in compliance with a presidential decree in central Maidan Wardak

KABUL): Almost 90 prisoners were released and jail terms of 95 others reduced in Nangarhar, Nimroz, Jawzjan and Samangan provinces in compliance with orders from

KABUL): The notorious US forces-controlled Bagram detention facility in central Parwan province would be transferred to the Afghan control next month, the Karzai office said.

KABUL. We need to do this in a manner that is maximally responsible. That’s what we want to do, and we’re going to keep working

TALOQAN (PAN): Hundreds of prisoners on Wednesday went on hunger strike against a delay in investigation of their cases and poor living conditions in the

KHOST CITY (PAN): The governor of southeastern Khost province on Wednesday said they had formed a commission to help release innocent prisoners, urging residents to

GHAZNI CITY/MAIMANA (PAN): In compliance with a presidential decree, authorities released 40 prisoners from jails in southern Ghazni and northern Faryab provinces on Wednesday, officials

JALALABAD (PAN): Forty-six prisoners were released from the central jail in eastern Nangarhar province, while another 69 inmates got their jail terms slashed in compliance