Torture and abuse of detainees ‘systematic’ in Afghanistan, UN says

From the Globe and Mail:

Afghanistan’s internal security service and police use torture and other abusive methods to extract confessions from suspected insurgents held in a number of detention centres around the country, according to a new report by the United Nations mission in Afghanistan.

Interviews with 379 detainees at 47 facilities over the past year found “a compelling pattern and practice of systematic torture and ill-treatment” at a number of centres, the study says.

This seems to confirm what some people have been saying for many years now. The UN report is here.