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May 15, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): The US airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan consists of a facility for the captives. This facility is separate from its chief jail. This data has been corroborated by the Red Cross to the BBC.

Nine previous inmates have declared to the BBC that they were in custody in a separate edifice, and put through maltreatment.

The US military has divulged that the central prison, now referred to as the Detention Facility in Parwan, is the solitary incarceration facility on the base.

However, it has expounded that it will take a look at the accusations of mistreatment mentioned to the BBC.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has revealed that, since August 2009, the American authorities have been informing to it the names of the apprehended people in a separate edifice at Bagram.

A Red Cross spokesperson has articulated that the ICRC is being alerted by the American authorities about the detained individuals within 14 days of their seizure. This has been a regular practice since August 2009 and is an initiative greeted by the ICRC.

The spokesperson was reacting to a query from the BBC about the being of the facility, talked about by numerous past jailbirds as the Tor Jail, which can be interpreted as the black jail.

The ICRC spokesperson articulated that they are being told about the seized individuals at the Bagram Theatre Internment Facility [now Detention Facility in Parwan] since Feb 2008.

In recent weeks, the BBC has cataloged the statements of nine former jailbirds, who have unveiled that they had been detained in the alleged Tor Jail.

They uttered dependable tales of being apprehended separately in chilly cells where a light functions throughout the day.

They uttered that they had been divested of slumber by the American military staff there.

In reply to these accusations, Vice Adm Robert Harward, in command of US detentions in Afghanistan, repudiated the survival of such a facility or maltreatments.