Afghanistan Prison Torture Still Happening

The use of torture of controlled by Afghan security forces trained by the US military is still rampant in the country, according to the results of a two-week "fact-finding mission" by an internal Afghan government commission.

The earlier UN report found over half of 635 detainees interviewed had been tortured- including 80 minors- the same ratio found in a similar report in 2011.

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Afghan authorities are still torturing prisoners by methods such as suspending people by their wrists, administering beatings to the soles of their feet, electric shocks, twisting detainees' genitals, removing toe nails and putting people into stress positions.

BBC NEWS : 

It says detainees in 47 facilities in 24 provinces run by the Afghan Directorate of Security and National Police have suffered abuses. 

The allegations contained in the report were first revealed by the BBC in September. 

At that time the government denied torture claims and said that the report was politically motivated.

The published report says prisoners were mostly subjected to interrogation techniques that constituted torture under international and Afghan law. 

But the UN made clear that the mistreatment was not the result of government policy.

Based on interviews with 379 prisoners, the report said that many inmates appeared to display visible signs of injuries and marks which suggested that they had been badly beaten or abused. 

Children as young as 14 were among those being held and subjected to torture. 

Nato has now stopped prisoner transfers to 16 facilities as a result of the findings and says it is monitoring the situation. 

Kabul said the report was aimed at disrupting the handover of control of security back to Afghans as foreign troops prepare to leave by 2014.

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