Afghanistan: Decree Increases Detainees’ Risk of Torture

Human Rights Watch

10 January 2012 Reading time: ( words)

President Hamid Karzai should revoke a new decree that puts detainees in Afghan-run prisons at heightened risk of torture and ill-treatment.

(New York) – President Hamid Karzai should revoke a new decree that puts detainees in Afghan-run prisons at heightened risk of torture and ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today.

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Afghanistan: Decree Increases Detainees’ Risk of Torture

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