Afghanistan
Middle East
Justice
Afghanistan
The leadership of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) released almost 285 detainees from the central prison of Kandahar province on Friday, based on the order of the IEA supreme leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada. These prisoners had been arrested on charges of criminal offenses and drug addictio…
Source — ATN News
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Middle East
Health
Mental health
Afghanistan
More than 1,200 drug addicts are being treated at a state prison in the western province of Herat, local officials said. The drug users are being treated by governmental institutions in cooperation with private sector companies. The drug users said they were grateful about their treatment.
“I am v…
Source — Tolo News
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Afghanistan : selon l’ONU, les tortures continuent dans les prisons
News
Middle East
Access to legal rights
Torture
Violence
Afghanistan
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Middle East
Activities
Rehabilitation
Work
Afghanistan
For many people, prison is only a place where criminals serve their sentence. But there are also prisoners who are transformed during their imprisonment, deciding to abandon their past and change their future.
Recently the directorate of prisons initiated a new program called “Prisoners’ Literacy a…
Source — Tolo news
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Coronavirus
Women
Asia
Afghanistan
Thousands of prisoners in Afghanistan have been released and pardoned as the country battles the Covid-19 pandemic. But in Kabul’s only prison facility for women, more than a hundred women, often with young children, remain behind bars. FRANCE 24 reports from Kabul.
In Afghanistan’s overcrowded pri…
Source — France 24
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Asia
Health
Protest
Torture
Violence
Afghanistan
In unusually frank comments on April 21, Afghanistan’s new prison chief Ahmad Rashid Totakhail complained to journalists about widespread abuses in the country’s prison system.
Totakhail described problems ranging from the lack of a comprehensive database on the length of detainees’ sentences to se…
Source — Gandhara
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Women
Afghanistan
When 18-year-old Fawzia was convicted of elopement and adultery, a local Afghan court in the southeastern province of Paktika sentenced her to jail.
She soon discovered that she would not be serving the 18-month sentence in a government-run prison, but in the house of a tribal elder where she would…
Source — Reuters
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