Detainees tell of ‘electrocution, beating, whipping, stress positions’
By CBC News, April 21, 2010
Afghan detainees handed over by British troops to Afghan secret police were regularly beaten with weapons, hung from the ceiling and electrocuted, according to detailed allegations made public in a London courtroom on Tuesday.
The allegations of abuse, similar to Canada’s detainee torture affair, came in the opening argument from Maya Evans, an anti-war activist seeking a judicial review of Britain’s detainee transfer policy in Afghanistan. The statement was submitted Monday but released only Tuesday in full.
According to documents submitted to the court, a number of detainees outlined allegations of systematic abuse at the hands of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), the Afghan secret service