The U.S. military promised Monday to improve its prison regime in Afghanistan after a top general inspected the network of 20 secretive jails, where allegations of abuse include the deaths of at least three detainees. The military refused to say how procedures will be changed at the jails - amid accounts from former prisoners of hoodings, beatings and sexual abuse. But a spokesman promised "comprehensive" information on the general's findings would be made public within weeks. Nader Nadery, a spokesman for the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, urged commanders to release the findings to convince Afghans - shocked by graphic pictures from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq - that abuse in Afghanistan was not widespread. "We're not satisfied, but hope all the results of the review will be made public, or at least shared with the Afghan government and the human rights commission," he said.
| Not a bad idea, except CBS, etc will have a field day with it. |
U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Tucker Mansager said some changes were being implemented at the jails based on Jacoby's interim findings. "We're taking action on those (findings) as they come forward, evaluating them, implementing some of them, deferring some of them and planning some of the rest of them out," he told a news conference in Kabul. Mansager said the final report will be complete within days, and some findings will be made public by early July. "It'll come out as a consolidated, cohesive and comprehensive package," Mansager said. |