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International News
Prison torture's new shadow on Afghan security services
Published Date: September 08, 2011 

KABUL: NATO has stopped sending prisoners to several Afghan jails because of UN 
warnings of torture, raising fresh questions about the capacity of Afghan 
security forces at a time when they are meant to be taking over greater 
responsibilities. High desertion rates, widespread corruption, drug use and 
illiteracy are among the problems plaguing Afghanistan's army and police, 
despite billions of dollars and thousands of trainers that NATO is pouring into 
raising standards.

The new allegations of mistreatment come in a UN report, which names several 
detention centres around the country. It has not yet been released to the 
public but the findings have been shared with some Afghan and NATO officials. 
"We have stopped the transfer of detainees to certain installations, as a 
precautionary measure," ISAF spokesman General Carsten Jacobson told a news 
conference in Kabul yesterday.

We are aware that a UN report will come out and we will look into that report. 
We have not stopped the overall transfer of detainees, but to certain 
installations only." Prisoner transfers in parts of NATO's southern regional 
command-particularly the Taleban heartland, Kandahar-had already been stopped 
in July. But the latest decision, made just "a few days" ago, added at least 
another 8 facilities to the list.

Run by police and intelligence services, they are scattered across the country 
including western Herat, eastern Khost and Kapisa and northern Kunduz and 
Takhar provinces, and include Afghanistan's main counter-terrorism centre. The 
shut-down comes as the Afghan government prepares to announce the areas chosen 
for a second swathe of security transfers from the NATO-led International 
Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to the Afghan army and police. The whole 
country is set to be under the control of the nation
al forces by 2014, with foreign combat troops back home.

Not a government policy
The UN report is expected to be released within a few days, but a spokesman 
said the Afghan government was already looking into ways to improve conditions, 
and the mistreatment did not appear to be sanctioned by top levels of 
government. "We understand that they are taking the findings extremely 
seriously and are proposing a series of remedial actions," said UN spokesman 
Dan McNorton.

Our findings indicate that the mistreatment of detainees is not an 
institutional or government policy of the government of Afghanistan." 
Afghanistan's prisons were already well-known to be over-crowded and beset by a 
range of other problems, including inmate violence.

In April, hundreds of prisoners escaped from jail in Afghanistan's southern 
Taleban heartland, Kandahar, through a tunnel dug by the insurgent group. 
Officials called the breakout a "disaster", and the scale of the operation 
fueled suspicions of collusion by guards. - Reuters

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