U.N. highlights torture in Afghan jails but says progress is being made
However, a third of 618 conflict-related detainees interviewed in 77 facilities in 28 provinces in the past two years provided accounts of widespread torture or ill-treatment.
Afghan prisoners from Hezb-e-Islami party walk outside the Pul-i-Charkhi Detention Facility after their release under a peace and rehabilitation program in Kabul, Afghanistan, January 11, 2018(photo credit: REUTERS/OMAR SOBHANIÊ)ByREUTERS
