Afghan security forces have inflicted less torture and mistreatment of prisoners detained in conflict in recent years
Mistreatment and horrendous practices persist in Afghan jails despite new laws, said a United Nations report.
A large number of detainees have reported torture and ill-treatment at facilities run by Afghanistan’s main security agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS).
The U.N. Secretary General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Tadamichi Yamamoto said, as the report illustrates there is still a long way to go to eradicate the horrendous practice of widespread torture and mistreatment of the conflict-related detainees.
The report said, torture–suffocation, electric shocks and suspension from ceilings–was being inflicted upon the detainees for forced confessions.
Most of them were captured fighting along with the hardline Islamist group Taliban.
However, the report also said, torture and ill-treatment fell to 31 per cent from 45 per cent.
Afghanistan’s U.S.-backed government is holding thousands of detainees.
