The police chief of Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, General Abdul Raziq, should be prosecuted over allegations of torture and enforced disappearances, the UN Committee against Torture said on Friday. Reuters reported that the committee said it was deeply concerned at numerous reports brought to its attention about the situation in Kandahar, including the use of torture methods such as suffocation, crushing the testicles, pumping water into the stomach and administering electric shocks. The UN body said the Afghan National Police (ANP) in the province was allegedly responsible for incommunicado detention, enforced disappearances, mass arbitrary detention and extrajudicial killings during counter-insurgency operations. Meanwhile Raziq rejected any allegation that he had been involved in torturing prisoners. “I strongly reject such claims and they are made to defame me. If anyone or any entity has any proof, they should present it but I am sure there is none,” he added.
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