Prisoners

HEART CITY (Pajhwok): Iran has handed over 16 prisoners to the Afghan government, an official said on Sunday. The Afghans jailed in Iran were released

KABUL on Tuesday said they felt captive in the new place. As many as 29 women have been released in compliance with a presidential decree

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Appointed by President Karzai, a probe team on Saturday claimed NATO-controlled prisons not only existed on the Kandahar Airfield but also on

MAIMANA (Pajhwok): After a jailbreak that killed three police guards, 38 dangerous inmates have been shifted from the central jail in northwestern Faryab province to

KABUL (Pajhwok): Twenty-six female inmates were released from the Badam Bagh prison of Kabul on Monday, an official said. Jail terms of several others were

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Monday asserted its readiness to take full control of the Bagram Prison in central Parwan province from

GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): A police and an inmate were wounded in a dispute between jail guards and prisoners inside the jail of southern Ghazni province,

KABUL): A review board investigating prisoner cases on Monday announced the release of 650 “innocent” inmates from the Bagram jail in central Parwan province. Abdul

TARINKOT (PAN): Six inmates have escaped from prison in central Uruzgan province by breaking a wall of the facility, an official said on Saturday. Abdullah

LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the

FARAH CITY (PAN): The number of prisoners, who have been on hunger strike over the past 11 days at the central jail in western Farah

FARAH (PAN went on hunger strike in Farah prison, insisting their names were among beneficiaries of a recent presidential decree. Col. Abdul Qayyum Azimi, the