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Afghanistan's Guantánamo: unfair trials exported [comment]
April 28, 2008 by Andrew Wood
Sahr MuhammedAlly: While pre-trial motions continue at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, at other end of the globe in Afghanistan more than 60 former Guantnamo and Bagram detainees have been convicted based on little more than mere allegations by the United States. After years of detention....... [more]

Afghanistan ends death penalty moratorium with 15 executions
October 8, 2007 by Leslie Schulman
Afghanistan has ended a three-year moratorium on the death penalty by executing 15 prisoners Sunday by firing squad at Pul-e-Charkhi, the country's largest prison, Afghanistan's chief of prisons said Monday. The executions are the second confirmed reports of executions being carried out in....... [more]