Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 24, 2017 A UN report says cases of torture and mistreatment of detainees in Afghanistan have increased despite promises from President Ashraf Ghani and new laws enacted to curb the widespread practice. At least 39 percent of the conflict-related detainees interviewed by UN investigators “gave credible and reliable accounts” of
Tolo News: Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Thursday called for the prosecution of war criminals and violators of human rights including Zardad Faryadi. Zardad Faryadi, a former Hizb-e-Islami commander, arrived back in Kabul on Wednesday after serving more than 10 years in a U.K prison on charges of torture and human rights violations. The
Michael Hughes: The US State Department was practically insulted that the International Criminal Court (ICC) dared to suggest Americans committed war crimes in Afghanistan through the systematic employment of enhanced interrogation techniques – otherwise known as torture. Not only are the crimes themselves appalling, but US officials legitimately believe international law does not and should not
Antiwar.com: Now that President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Flynn as his national security adviser, media coverage has given prominence to the more serious issue of Flynn’s denunciation of Islam as a “cancer” and other manifestations of his embrace of Islamophobia. But the mainstream media view of Flynn’s military record ignores his pivotal role in devising
VOA News November 15, 2016 WASHINGTON — An International Criminal Court investigation of possible war crimes by U.S. forces in Afghanistan is not “warranted or appropriate,” the U.S. State Department said Tuesday after prosecutors in The Hague found initial grounds for such a probe. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said the United States was not a
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 15, 2016 Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court say they have “reasonable basis” to believe the United States committed “war crimes” by torturing prisoners in Afghanistan. The U.S. military subjected at least 61 detainees in Afghanistan to “torture, cruel treatment, [and] outrages upon personal dignity,” an initial investigative report said
Press TV June 14, 2016 Taliban militants have peeled the skin of a young Afghan man off his body before killing him in central Afghanistan over the alleged involvement of his kin in the murder of a militant commander. Local officials said the incident happened last December, when Taliban militants dragged the 21-year-old Fazl Ahmad
Yahoo News: The CIA inspector general’s office — the spy agency’s internal watchdog — has acknowledged it “mistakenly” destroyed its only copy of a mammoth Senate torture report at the same time lawyers for the Justice Department were assuring a federal judge that copies of the document were being preserved, Yahoo News has learned. Click here
The ACLU sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on Thursday for documents related to its inspection of a CIA black site in 2002. According to the executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report, which was declassified in 2014, officers from the BOP conducted a detailed assessment of the infamous detention center known
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 13, 2016 A new U.S. State Department report says Afghanistan’s most pressing human rights problems stem from “widespread violence,” including indiscriminate attacks on civilians by armed insurgent groups and “torture and abuse of detainees by government forces.” The 2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, released on April 13, also