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Afghanistan

Afghan Govt Releases 164 Hizb-e-Islami Prisoners

2020-05-30

[ToloNews] The Afghan government on Friday released 164 members of Hizb-e-Islami from Bagram and Pul-e-Charkhi jails, members of the commission implementing the peace deal between Hizb-e-Islami and the government said on Friday.

However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
some of those released from the jails claimed to be members of the Taliban
Taliban

...Arabic for students...
Mohammad Afzal is one of the those released today. He served in the Afghan National Army (ANA) for eight years and later was arrested at Kabul airport for ties with the Taliban.

"I was given 20 years in prison. I spent 11 years, but I was granted freedom for the remaining 9 years under the (Hekmatyar--government agreement) process, and I came out," said Mohammad Afzal, a resident of Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
He claimed to have served in the Afghan National Army for eight years.

"I was serving in the army for eight years, then the incident happened and I was arrested," added Mohammad Afzal.

Gul Rahman is another inmate who was also placed in durance vile
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
for having ties with the Taliban.

He spent four years in jail.

"Not only for Moslems--peace is vital for the entire world. We always support peace," said Gul Rahman.

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
, leader of the Hizb-e-Islami party, signed the peace agreement with the Afghan government in September 2016.

The process of releasing the prisoners was delayed for months after human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
organizations criticized the government for agreeing to the move, stating that the political prisoners had been involved in insurgency incidents that killed civilians.

Hizb-e-Islami claims that there are 3,000 of its members being held in Afghan prisons.

The prisoners were released based on a peace agreement signed between 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...
and Hizb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in September 2016. Hekmatyar returned to the country after 20 years.

According to Article 11 of the peace agreement, after an assessment of their documents, all prisoners of Hizb-e-Islami who are accused of political and security crimes and are granted ’the right of people’ — a legal term which is used for those who don’t carry any complaint from members of the public in a court.

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