Ottawa

‘Nothing changes’

Graeme Smith talks to the director of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.

Are the security forces still beating people and electrocuting people?

Generally, in the various forces, it’s still a bad situation with the prisoners. One change is that before they were abusing people in front of us, and now they are doing it in hidden places.

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