Meanwhile,
...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone......
a number of prisoners at Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul have protested against bad conditions, especially over the lack of hygiene and safety against the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men.... The prisoners said that the cells are overcrowded and the inmates fear they will get infected.
An official from the directorate of prisons previously said that a sample taken from one of the detainees in the Pul-e-Charkhi jail was negative. Nonetheless, the Afghan Ministry of Public Health has warned that the virus could infiltrate the cells if the necessary measures not taken by the government.
"Various measures have been taken for the prisons, but the good news is that 10,000 will be released. The more you reduce the crowds, the more you prevent the spread of the virus," said Waheedullah Mayar, a front man for the Ministry of Health.
On March 26 the Afghan government announced that based on President Ghani's decree, up to 10,000 prisoners-- including women and kiddies--would be released in the upcoming 10 days to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus in Afghan detention centers.
Meanwhile,
...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone......
some of those recently released from the jails confirmed that the prisoners are very vulnerable in their cells because of the spread of COVID-19.
"Those who are held in the Kabul detention center are being kept in a bad situation and they are throwing water and food to them inside," said Abdul Jameel, who was recently released from the jail.
Govt Releases 253 Prisoners Amid COVID-19
[ToloNews] Ahmad Rashid Totakhil, head of the general directorate of prisons, said that the measures were implemented in jails to avoid the outbreak of Covid-19. He also stated that they have no reported or suspected cases of the virus in the detention centers yet.
Based on President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
’s decree, those prisoners who are accused of being involved in ’terror’ activities will not be released from the jails.
”Let ‘em die of corona,” he said.
On the other hand, the spread of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
has accelerated with 70 reported cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of infected persons to 784 in Afghanistan, according to health officials, who added that a majority of these cases are from the provinces of Kabul and Herat...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...