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International human rights organizations have long criticized conditions at the Bagram facility, where detainees have been held — many of them for years — without access to lawyers or even the right to know the reason for their imprisonment.
As part of a prison-wide protest that began in July, detainees at Bagram,
“Any reforms in U.S. detentions in Afghanistan is an improvement, but it remains to be seen whether the new procedures will cure the ills of arbitrary and indefinite detention that have been the hallmark of detentions in Bagram,” said Sahr Muhammed Ally of the New York-based group Human Rights First.
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U.S. Gives New Rights To Afghan Prisoners
The new system will be applied to the more than 600 Afghans held at the Bagram military base, and will mark the first substantive change in the overseas detention policies that President Obama inherited from the Bush administration.
International human rights organizations have long criticized conditions at the Bagram facility, where detainees have been held — many of them for years — without access to lawyers or even the right to know the reason for their imprisonment.
As part of a prison-wide protest that began in July, detainees at Bagram,
“Any reforms in U.S. detentions in Afghanistan is an improvement, but it remains to be seen whether the new procedures will cure the ills of arbitrary and indefinite detention that have been the hallmark of detentions in Bagram,” said Sahr Muhammed Ally of the New York-based group Human Rights First.
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