Scathing Report On Human Rights In Afghanistan Released

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Scathing Report On Human Rights In Afghanistan Released

VIDEO: Dana Kozlov reports.

Apr 25, 2005 9:44 pm US/Central

CHICAGO (CBS 2) A report on human rights in Afghanistan has just been released. It is scathing in its criticism of the way many people are treated in Afghan prisons by coalition forces. The DePaul professor who wrote the report had to do so without the full cooperation of the American military.

Eighteen thousand US troops are still in Afghanistan fighting the Bush administration's war on terror. One Chicago human rights expert commissioned by the United Nations to investigate conditions there says things have improved, but there are still serious human rights violations. Especially among women, children and in Afghani and US-run prisons.

"There are a lot of allegations of people who have been tortured and mistreated,” Report author M. Cherif Bassiouni says, “at the hands of coalition forces. And the military is quite concerned its reputation will be tarnished."

Professor Bassiouni says the military didn't allow him into US facilities but he talked to dozens of people about their experiences.
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