Asia Pacific|âI Wake Up and Screamâ: Secret Taliban Prisons Terrorize Thousands
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/27/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-prison.html
Sayed Hiatullah, 42; Naqibullah Momand, 26; Mohammed Aman, 31; Atiqullah Hassanzada, 31.
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âI Wake Up and Screamâ: Secret Taliban Prisons Terrorize Thousands
A potential U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, coupled with a weak Afghan security force, mean the Taliban will likely continue to capture, condemn and torture thousands.
Sayed Hiatullah, 42; Naqibullah Momand, 26; Mohammed Aman, 31; Atiqullah Hassanzada, 31.Credit...
Feb. 27, 2021
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan â The Taliban prison is a ruined house, a cave, a filthy basement in an abandoned dwelling, or a village mosque. Beatings or worse are a certainty, and the sentence is indefinite. Food, if there is any, is stale bread and cold beans. A bed is the floor or a dirty carpet. The threat of death â screamed, shouted, sometimes inflicted â is ever-present.