CIA runs detention center in Afghanistan

[Judi Lynn]

UPDATED: 08:06, January 23, 2006
CIA runs detention center in Afghanistan: newspaper

The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been running a detention center near the Afghan capital of Kabul, an Afghan newspaper reported Sunday.

"Detainees at Guantanamo Bay prison revealed that they had been kept and interrogated by CIA officials at prison near Kabul," daily Cheragh quoted the New York-based Human Rights Watch as reporting.

Based on eight detainees admission who were kept at the U.S. detention center near Kabul between 2003 and 2004, the Watchdog reported that Afghan and American warders were not dressed in military uniform but in plain cloths, which indicates the jail is run by the CIA.

"The warders applied maltreatment to the detainees and almost all eight detainees who spent time in the prison told the same thing," the daily added, quoting the rights watchdog.

The prisoners disclosed that the warders tied them in rope in small cells and deprived them of sleep for several hours besides sinking their heads in cold water and creating noise at their cells through loudspeakers
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http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200601/23/eng20060123_237409.html

[SeaBob]

1. secret prisons.

I hope your not suprised at this, outraged yes, but not surprised. The question should be where doesnt the US have secret prisons?:mad:

[HuffleClaw]

2. only one of many

but nice to see it become 'real' news. this new american gulag needs exposing.

[OneBlueSky]

3. the US runs a gulag archipelago . . . they're everywhere . . . n/t

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