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The Pul-e-Charkhi prison is a prison in Afghanistan in the vicinity of Kabul.[1][2][3] The camp was built in the 1970s. The BBC News reports: "Afghans have bitter memories of the jail under every government that has ruled the country."
Some of Afghanistan's most well-known captives have been held there, including Jack Idema, the renegade American bounty hunter, and Abdul Rahman, an Afghan man who was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for converting to Christianity.
Under pressure to reduce the number of captives held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, and the larger, more primitive, less well-known American Bagram Theater detention facility the USA paid for an expansion of the Pul-e-Charkhi prison, to house its former captives.[1] The USA picks, trains, and pays the Afghan guards in the American built wing. But the American built wing is part of an Afghan facility, and captives transferred there are beyond the reach of appeals to the US Justice System.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tim Golden. Defying U.S. Plan, Prison Expands in Afghanistan, New York Times, January 7, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-01-07.
- ↑ Tim Golden, David Rohde. Afghans Hold Secret Trials for Men That U.S. Detained, New York Times, April 10, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-04-10. “Since 2002 the Bush administration has pressed foreign governments to prosecute the Guantánamo prisoners from their countries as a condition of the men’s repatriation. But many of those governments — including such close American allies as Britain — have objected, saying the American evidence would not hold up in their courts.”
- ↑ Bilal Sarwary. Kabul's prison of death, BBC News, Monday, 27 February 2006. Retrieved on 2008-04-10.