KABUL (HIA) on Thursday said 90 HIA prisoners would be released soon from the Bagram and Pul-i-Charkhi prisons. Releasing HIA prisoners was part of a landmark peace deal between the government and the HIA signed in September. Fazel Ghani Haqmal,…
Dozens of prisoners who were extradited to Afghanistan from Iran about one year ago have gone on hunger strike at the central prison in western Herat province against their undecided fate. One of the striking inmates, who…
KABUL delegation has found prisoners at the Pul-i-Charkhi jail on the eastern outskirts of Kabul are served ‘rotten meat’. The Senate task team visited the facility and listened to prisoners’ complaints three weeks back, said Zalmai Zabuli, who headed the…
Forty-two prisoners, including two women, have been released from the central jail in southern Kandahar province, officials said on Saturday. A ceremony held for the released inmates was attended by Kandahar Governor Zalmai Weesa, appellate chief prosecutor…
As many as 154 prisoners, including 14 women, have been released from the central jail in western Herat province in compliance with a presidential decree, the jailor said on Monday. The prisoners were released during a special…
Forty-four prisoners have been released from the central jail in southwestern Nimroz province, said officials on Sunday. Governor Mohammad Sami said the 44 prisoners were released from the jail in Zaranj, the provincial capital, in compliance with a…
“I can now read and write, so I am very happy. I wish I had been jailed a few years ago, so I could be literate,” says a prisoner learning in the main prison of central Parwan province.…
KABUL (HIA) were released from the Pul-i-Charkhi Jail east of Kabul on Tuesday, an official said. Nader Afghan, a spokesman for the Gulbadin Hekmatyar-led HIA, told Pajhwok Afghan News the inmates were released under the party’s agreement with the government.…
KABUL (HIA) were released from the Pul-i-Charkhi Jail east of Kabul on Tuesday, an official said. Nader Afghan, a spokesman for the Gulbadin Hekmatyar-led HIA, told Pajhwok Afghan News the inmates were released under the party’s agreement with the government.…
KABUL (HIA for unknown reasons. The first group of HIA prisoners was expected to be set free t, but it was delayed due to some concerns. An HIA delegation and media reporters went to the Pul-i-Charkhi prison on eastern outskirts…
KABUL (HIA for unknown reasons. The first group of HIA prisoners was expected to be set free t, but it was delayed due to some concerns. An HIA delegation and media reporters went to the Pul-i-Charkhi prison on eastern outskirts…
A Senate body on Tuesday said more than 100 prisoners at the notorious Pul-i-Charkhi jail east of Kabul city have sewn their lips shut and have been on hunger strike in protest against a presidential order. Mohammad Hasham…
Sixteen prisoners have been released from the central jail in southern Kandahar province in compliance with a presidential decree issued on the occasion of Eid Miladun Nabi. The provincial appellate attorney, Abdul Rahman Koshan, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
Fifty-five prisoners were released on Saturday from the main prison in western Herat province in compliance with a presidential decree. Abdullah Azizi, the Herat prison warden, told reporters here that the prisoners were released under the 109th presidential…
KABUL (HIA)’s peace delegation head Eng. Mohammad Amin Karim on Saturday hoped 400 HIA-linked prisoners would be released in a week from Pul-i-Charkhi and Bagram jails. In article 11th of the peace agreement between the government and HIA, the government…
Thirty-two people, including 28 security personnel, have been released from Taliban’s captivity in the Greshk district of southern Helmand province, officials said on Wednesday. Omar Zwak, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News, commando unit personnel launched an…
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) on Monday said more than 100 people had been freed from Taliban-run prisons in three districts of southern Helmand province, a claim the rebels rejected. The MoD in a statement said Special Security…
Twenty-two prisoners have been released and jail terms of several others reduced in the southeastern province of Khost in compliance with presidential decrees, the central jail’s commander said. The prisoners were released from the central jail in…
Some prisoners held at the central jail in southern Ghazni province on Tuesday complained about their ongoing detention despite being never charged with any crime. They said their cases could not be investigated despite spending years in…
Thirty-six prisoners were released from the central jail of northwestern Nimroz province on Tuesday, when some of them complained of overcrowding. The prisoners were released in compliance with a presidential decree issued on the occasion of the birth…
KABUL panel has found that cases of nearly 30 percent of prisoners held at the Pul-i-Charkhi prison east of Kabul have not been followed. Zalmai Zabuli, who heads the upper house complaints’ commission, told Pajhwok Afghan News that a delegation…
KABUL. The ICPS statistics show the number of prisoners in Afghanistan has increased from 5,262 inmates in 2004 to 26,519 in 2014. Estimating Afghanistan’s population at 35.6 million individuals, the organization says 2.7 percent or 718 of total prisoners are…
Hundreds of prisoners in northwestern Nimroz province and about 250 families returning from Pakistan and Iran to northern Sar-i-Pul province were on Wednesday distributed relief goods, officials said. In Nimroz, more than 500 prisoners and around 135 juvenile…
Three of the 600 prisoners, who fled the central jail of northeastern Kunduz province in late September, have been re-arrested by security forces, an official said on Friday. The prisoners, including 35 women attack on the jail…
