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Treatment of conflict-related detainees in Afghan custody / United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.

Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Kabul, Afghanistan : United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) ; United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2011.Description: viii, 74 pages ; 30 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • Pamphlet JC599. A3.
Contents:
Contents: Glossary—UNAMA’s mandate and detention observation programme—I. Executive summary—II. Background—III. Torture at the national directorate of security—IV. Torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by the Afghan national police—V. Transfer of detainees to NDS and ANP by international military forces—VI. Accountability of NDS and ANP officials for torture and abuse of detainees—VII. Due process violation and arbitrary detention—VIII. Government and international response—IX. Conclusion—X. Recommendations—Annexes.
Summary: Summary: “After two days [in a National Directorate of Security (NDS) facility in Kandahar] they transferred me to NDS headquarters [in Kandahar]. I spent one night on their veranda. On the following day, an official called me to their interrogation room. He asked if I know the name of his office. I said it was “Khad” [Dari term for the former NDS]. “You should confess what you have done in the past as Taliban; even stones confess here,” he said. He kept insisting that I confess for the first two days. I did not confess…”—(page 1).

Cover title.
“October 2011”.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Glossary—UNAMA’s mandate and detention observation programme—I. Executive summary—II. Background—III. Torture at the national directorate of security—IV. Torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by the Afghan national police—V. Transfer of detainees to NDS and ANP by international military forces—VI. Accountability of NDS and ANP officials for torture and abuse of detainees—VII. Due process violation and arbitrary detention—VIII. Government and international response—IX. Conclusion—X. Recommendations—Annexes.

Summary: “After two days [in a National Directorate of Security (NDS) facility in Kandahar] they transferred me to NDS headquarters [in Kandahar]. I spent one night on their veranda. On the following day, an official called me to their interrogation room. He asked if I know the name of his office. I said it was “Khad” [Dari term for the former NDS]. “You should confess what you have done in the past as Taliban; even stones confess here,” he said. He kept insisting that I confess for the first two days. I did not confess…”—(page 1).

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