The Observer, 20 December 2014
The Guardian’s former Afghanistan correspondent Emma Graham-Harrison – now the daily’s diplomatic correspondent – is back with a piece about Afghanistan: about the fact that, with the closure of the US-run prison in Bagram, former CIA ‘ghost prisosers’ “whose treatment set the torture template in the agency’s notorious Salt Pit … have disappeared into Afghanistan’s prison system, where they are once more at risk of torture”. She refers in her article, among other sources, to Kate Clark’s reporting for AAN.
Kate is also quoted:
“The fact that you are holding people without identities makes it hard to protect them,” said Kate Clark, of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, who has written extensively about detentions and abuse. “Torture is illegal but it continues to be deployed.” … Under Afghan law, individuals must be charged or released after 72 hours in detention, Clark said. That period can be extended, but only through the judicial system. There is no provision for indefinite detention.
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This article was last updated on 9 Mar 2020
