NATO denies running secret prison in Afghanistan
October 19th, 2010 - 12:19 am ICT by IANSKabul, Oct 18 (IANS) NATO Monday denied media reports that US military is allegedly running a secret prison in war-torn Afghanistan.
“We refuse these allegations, there are no secret prisons in the country, and the US force in Afghanistan is running a detention facility in Bagram and it is run jointly by US and Afghan authorities,” Xinhua quoted a spokesman of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) as saying.
A programme is underway to fully hand over the Bagram detention facility to Afghan government at the beginning of 2011, Brigadier-General Josef Blotz said here.
Located 50 km north of Afghan capital Kabul, the Bagram airbase is the largest US-led coalition forces base in Afghanistan.
A section of media reported recently that US-led troops have been running a secret detention centre in Bagram and mistreating detainees by deprivation of sleep and proper food.
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