Prisoners

FARAH (PAN continued their hunger strike in Farah prison for the fourth day on Tuesday, insisting their names were among beneficiaries of a recent presidential

FARAH CITY (PAN): More than 180 prisoners in the central jail of western Farah province continue to be on hunger strike since Thursday, an official

ASADABAD (PAN): Thirty-three prisoners were freed and the jail terms of three others reduced in eastern Kunar province on Wednesday in compliance with President Hamid

KABUL Journalists Centre (AJC) on Wednesday welcomed the release of Azizur Rahman Sakhizada, a Kabul-based reporter with daily Mandegar, from a police detention facility. Sakhizada

KANDAHAR CITY (PAN allegation that their 32 prisoners had been tortured to death in district jails. A Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi in a statement

KABUL): Up to 90 Afghan citizens are being held by British troops at Camp Bastion in southern Helmand province, the UK’s defence secretary admitted on

KABUL): Fourteen Afghan prisoners, who had been languishing in Tajikistan‘s prisons, have been handed over to Afghan authorities, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on

HERAT CITY (PAN): Ninety-seven prisoners were released on Monday from the main prison in western Herat in province in compliance with a presidential decree issued

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,