“According to the report of the commission of inquiry, half of the prisoners interviewed complained of mistreatment, harassment and even torture during their detention,” AFP quoted the president as saying in a statement.
Karzai ordered the probe after the United Nations issued a report in January, saying that Afghanistan used torture and abuse tactics against detainees who were transferred to Afghan control by US-led forces.
The 139-page report noted that over half of the detainees interviewed between October 2011 and October 2012 said that they experienced torture or abuse.
The report detailed fourteen types of torture, including beatings with cables and pipes, attacks on the genitals, threats of execution or rape, electric shocks, and forced stress positions.
Afghan government had earlier said that findings by its internal monitoring committee showed that “the allegations of torture of detainees were untrue and thus disproved.”
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