London, Oct 11 (ANI): The United Nations has published a report claiming that prisoners in Afghan detention facilities were beaten and tortured.
The UN report has claimed that detainees in 47 facilities in 24 provinces run by the Afghan Directorate of Security and National Police suffered abuses, and prisoners were mostly subjected to interrogation techniques that constituted torture under international and Afghan law.
The intelligence service is also accused of 'systematically' practising torture at a number of its facilities to extract confessions from prisoners suspected of having links to the Taliban or other militant groups.
Children as young as 14 were among those being held and subjected to torture, the BBC reports.
The report reveled that torture methods used included suspending people by their wrists, administering beatings to the soles of their feet, electric shocks, twisting detainees' genitals, removing toe nails and putting people in stress positions.
The UN, however, made clear that the mistreatment was not the result of government policy.
The report based on interviews with 379 prisoners said that many inmates appeared to display visible signs of injuries and marks that suggested that they had been badly beaten or abused.
The report said that some of those detained had been handed over to the Afghans by international forces.
NATO has now stopped prisoner transfers to 16 facilities as a result of the findings and said it is monitoring the situation. (ANI)
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