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Detained and Denied in Afghanistan

7-24-2011

By Daniel Littlewood
for Law and Security Program
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Most Americans are familiar with Guantanamo Bay. This week’s FirstCast focuses on the much larger detention facility at the U.S. airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan. There are actually more than 2000 prisoners being held indefinitely in Afghanistan, more than ten times as many held in Guantanamo Bay. Interestingly, just since President Obama took office, the number of detainees in custody, who are without due process, has more than tripled.

Human Rights First’s Daphne Eviatar and Gabor Rona discuss the implications of Bagram in Afghan society as we find out more details about U.S. detention process in Afghanistan—including the revelation of what an “enduring security threat” means—and as the United States begin to pull military troops out of the country.

Read our report: Detained and Denied in Afghanistan


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  • http://www.kaydanes.com Kay Danes

    Our organisation has been to a number of prisons in Afghanistan. From what I’ve seen, the State Department run prisons are very well run and the conditions far better than that under the Taliban.

    • http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/about-us/staff/gabor-rona/ Gabor Rona, Human Rights First

      To my knowledge, there are no State Department-run prisons in Afghanistan. Which organisation are you working with? Anyway, we don’t doubt that U.S. detention facilities are “well run and with better conditions than the Taliban.” Our report, however, is much more about due process of law than about conditions and treatment. And if the Taliban provides the standard by which we measure adequacy then the U.S. has sunk a long way, indeed. Here’s a copy of our report: http://bit.ly/lXMNWp

  • bashary hekmat

    to the my knowledge there are a very good judgement for the activities of Taliban and their supporters to see such as cruelties .
    that is substitute of their bad habits assisting with Taliban

  • Todd

    you detain ,ill-treat inmates and you write the report .Amazing

  • Hywaad

    my name is hywaad iam working with US gov in afghanistan by position of interpreter so it possible to become a reall US army Solider ?