Inmates at Notorious Afghan Prison Say Also Abused

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Inmates at Notorious Afghan Prison Say Also Abused


May 20, 10:46 AM (ET)

By Mike Collett-White
PUL-I-CHARKI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Inmates at the imposing Pul-i-Charki jail east of Kabul may well wonder at the international outcry over U.S. military abuses at prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan, having been badly mistreated themselves.

Most of the 1,244 men at the fortress-like prison have just been moved from Shiberghan jail in the north belonging to General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a presidential adviser and key ally of U.S. forces during the war against the Taliban in 2001.

There they were beaten and underfed, slept 26 to a cell and cooped up for months, and contracted tuberculosis due to the overcrowding, prisoners at Pul-i-Charki told Reuters on Thursday.

"For the first four months at Shiberghan we were not allowed outside," said Shah Akbar, a Pakistani who was fighting with the Taliban when they surrendered to Dostum's U.S.-backed forces near Kunduz, in the north, late in 2001.

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http://news.myway.com/world/article/id/404458|world|05-20-2004::10:52|reuters.html

[Spazito]

1. We now have Iraq, Afghanistan and Gitmo....

with ongoing investigations but it was only 6 or 7 bad apples, right?