HRW to Afghanistan: end torture in government detention facilities

[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Sunday urged Afghanistan [press release] to make meaningful reforms to end the use of torture in government detention centers. HRW called attention to a UN report [text; JURIST report] released last month that more than half of pre-trial detainees being held in Afghanistan were being subjected to torture, saying this report "should sound alarm bells for the Afghan government to take decisive action to end torture." Afghan President Hamid Karzai appointed a...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/02/hrw-to-afghanistan-end-torture-in-government-detention-facilities.php

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