A provincial council member from Kandahar province on Saturday accused provincial police chief Gen. Abdul Raziq of running private jails and torturing prisoners there.
Gulzai said told a news conference in Kabul, “Gen. Abdul Raziq have private prisons in Kandahar city and Spin Boldak district where civilians are also imprisoned and they are tortured and persecuted.”
The public representative further claimed he knew an individual who had been held captive on the police chief’s orders for the past many months.
“I have been informed about an Afghan trader who had come from Pakistan to obtain ID card (Tazkera) in Kandahar. He was arrested by the police chief and despite the passage of eight months, Gen. Raziq is yet to send his case to the provincial attorney’s office. Raziq also doesn’t appear to respond in this regard.”
“Raziq owns many such prisons where he keeps hundreds of prisoners. He also holds kangaroo courts and take decisions.”
However, Gulzai presented no proof before media to substantiate his claims.
Gulzai said he had shared the issue with the Minister of Interior and the National Security Council, but failed to elicit a response.
In April, 2017, the UN committee on torture had also accused Gen. Raziq of running private jails where he tortured prisoners and in some cases eliminated his opponents.
Gen. Raziq has said nothing about the allegations leveled against him by Janan Gulzai.
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