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Letter from United Nations Special Rapporteur re: Potential Detainee in Kandahar, Afghanistan

Oct. 22, 2002 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3730
United Nations Special Rapporteur report on allegations of potential detainee abuse at Kandahar, Afghanistan. This is an annex of a report which purports to describe how suspected Taliban detainees were bound and hooded while in U.S. custody in March 2002 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. It is alleged that soldiers punched, kicked and forced to use buckets as toilets while in custody. It is also alleged that the detainees had their heads and beards shaved. There is also a second series of abuse allegations from the Uruzgan Provence of Afghanistan. The reports states “According to the information received, at the scene of the raid they had their hands and feet tied, were blindfolded and hooded, and flown to the US base at Kandahar. It is reported that upon arrival at the base the prisoners were beaten, kicked and punched by soldiers, made to lie on their stomachs with their hands tied behind their backs and-their legs chained. Where upon soldiers walked across their backs.”
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