There are approximately 77 prisons and detention facilities in
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...
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and at least one maximum security prison primarily for
enemy combatant
Enemy combatant is a person who, either lawfully or unlawfully, engages in hostilities for the other side in an armed conflict. Usually enemy combatants are members of the armed forces of the state with which another state is at war. In the case ...
s. The following is an incomplete list of prisons in Afghanistan:
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Black jail
The black jail is a U.S. military detention camp established in 2002 inside Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. Distinct from the main prison of the Bagram Internment Facility, the "Black Jail" is run by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and U.S. S ...
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Do Ab prison The Do Ab prison is a prison in Panjshir, Afghanistan.
The International Committee of the Red Cross reported 270 captives held in the prison were released on January 3, 2002.
They reported that some of the captives had been held in the prison for ...
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Mazari Sharif prison
The Taliban maintained a prison in Mazari Sharif. Several Guantanamo captives testified that they had been held in a prison in Mazari Sharif. Some of them testified that they had been tortured by the Taliban at the prison in Mazari Sharif.
Indivi ...
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Qala-i-Jangi
Qala-i-Jangi (Dari/Pashto: ) is a 19th-century fortress located near Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan. It is known for being the site of a bloody 2001 Taliban uprising named the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi, in which at least 470 people were ki ...
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Rish Khor prison
Rish Khor is a prison on an Afghan military base that former captives report was run by Americans.
Anand Gopal, writing in the ''Asia Times'', quoted Rehmatullah Muhammad, one of nine men from a mountain village named Zaiwalat in Wardak who r ...
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Sheberghan Prison
The Sheberghan Prison is a prison in northern Afghanistan.
Following the battle of Qali-Jangi, in Mazari Sharif, General Dostum sent many of the surviving captives to Sheberghan Prison.
He is reported to have sent them in industrial shipping ...
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Capital punishment in Afghanistan
References
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External links
For More Than 300 Afghan Children, Many Older Than 5, Home Is Mother’s Cellblock(New York Times, 23 Dec. 2017).
Prisons
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, standard English, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correcti ...
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...
Prisons
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, standard English, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correcti ...