PressTV: Afghanistan Analysts Network: US holds inmates in Bagram’s secret jail

Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:43PM
GMT
The Afghanistan Analysts
Network says it has found that the U.S. is running a secret jail at Bagram
Airbase in which Afghan inmates are being tortured.
In March 2013, the U.S.
military said it handed over the control of Bagram detention facility – now
called the Afghan National Detention Facility (ANDF), to the Afghan Ministry of
Defense. The contents of this agreement between the two governments have never
been published, although the Afghan officials say it is not classified.
But now interviews with
detainees and Afghan officials have revealed that inmates are still being
secretly taken, interrogated, and tortured by U.S. military forces on a secret
site on Bagram Airbase known as Tor Jail meaning black prison.
Former detainees have told
AAN that even after the handover, the U.S. military has kept its authority to
access detainees for interrogation.
The ANN has described the
Tor Jail as another Guantanamo.
Before arriving at the
ANDF, some detainees are taken to a U.S.-controlled site known as Tor jail,
where sleep deprivation is practiced, according to reports by Senior AAN
analyst, Kate Clark.
Afghanistan Analysts
Network is an independent non-profit Research Organization.
Reports of a secret
torture site on Bagram come as General Joseph Dunford, head of the U.S.-led
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, four months ago
called the long overdue Bagram handover to Afghanistan a highlight to “an
increasingly confident, capable and sovereign Afghanistan.”
In November 2012, Karzai
ordered Afghan forces to take control of the prison and accused U.S. officials
of failing to fully comply with the terms of the memorandum of understanding on
detentions.

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