RASC News Agency: The people who came out from the Taliban group prison have shocking narration from this group prisons. From pricked in penis to urine sprayed on the prisoners faces, eating human waste and hanging from one up to three days and nights, as well as, electric shock and sleeplessness is the fate of these prisoners.
At least three soldiers of the previous government of Afghanistan who were arrested by members of this group after the issuance of a general amnesty order for Mullah Hebatullah, leader of the Taliban group, in the name of cooperation with the National Resistance Front in Kabul, Kapisa and Parwan provinces, and after a long period of imprisonment, were released alive. Based on the talking of these people with the RASC News Agency, they had a painful narration from the Taliban group prisons, added imagination of the Taliban group for those who didn’t experience this group prisons and believe that Taliban have mercy to human is not possible to judge about these prisons.
A soldier of the former government of Afghanistan, Wahidullah, who was a member of the former national army forces in Paktika province, told RASC News Agency that the intelligence of the Taliban group had arrested him eight months ago when he went to the center of Najrab district of Kapisa province to buy soda with his four-year-old son.
Accused of being involved with the National Resistance Front, he was arrested and by covering his head with a black veil, he was transferred to one of the prisons of this group in the 34th Intelligence Directorate, to Shash Darak in Kabul. According to this former soldier, who was busy managing property in his village, after his arrest, despite frequent visits of his old father and his family members to the institutions of the Taliban group, this group did not inform any of their family members about his arrest and his presence in the prison of this group. He was subjected to painful tortures such as “urinating on his face” during his seven months in prison. “Eating waste materials of the Taliban group”, “hanging from one leg to three days”, shocking with electricity” and being sleepless at night, and according to him, he is 31 years old, all the hair on his body became white from severe torture and cruelty in prison. Now this soldier is not able to walk and move.
This former member of the Afghanistan National Army said: “When the investigators of the Taliban group came to investigate in the prison, they put hot knives and parts of my body in the fire, and asked which person you were related to in the resistance front and during your duty in the army. How many Taliban “Mujahids” have you killed ?
This former officer continued: “In the room where I was imprisoned, six other people from Kapisa, Parwan, Balkh, Panjshir and Baghlan provinces were also imprisoned, four of them were soldiers of the security forces and two of them were students.
They were arrested on charges of collaborating with the National Resistance Front. According to this officer who was released from the prison of the Taliban group: “One of the prisoners who was imprisoned in the same room with us, died after three days of hanging and electrocution, and his body was left in the prison room in front of us for four days. »
This officer who was released from the prison of the Taliban group continued to say that the Taliban group did not inform their families about their detention after the arrest because some of the arrested people died during torture by them, and after killing the prisoners, they bury themselves.
This prisoner released from the prison of the Taliban group also said that during the week, three days, “Monday, Wednesday and Friday”, the head of the prison of the Taliban group, whom he mentioned as Qari Mohibullah, forced them to eat human waste that was placed in a booth in the corner of the prison courtyard. “Eating human excrement to the prisoners in the prison of the 34th Intelligence Directorate of this group in Shash Darak, Kabul” In addition to other crimes, it was for all the prisoners and after eating it, the Taliban group gave the prisoners electric shocks for ten minutes.
According to this former army officer, Qari Mohibullah, the head of the prison of the Taliban group, and three other of their soldiers, urinated on the faces of the prisoners who were thrown to the ground after three days of “hanging from one leg” and were in the worst mental and physical condition. They did not allow the other prisoners to help them.
This former army officer also said that when he was released from the prison of the Taliban group, he learned that his young sister had died two months ago due to his pain and grief.
On the other hand, an army officer of the former government of Afghanistan, by pseudonym of Ajmal, who was arrested by the intelligence of the Taliban group in Gulbahar district of Parwan province and was imprisoned by the Taliban group for four months. This soldier showing the wounds of torture caused by electric shocks, putting hot knives on his body and pulling of his fingernails also told a painful story about the prison conditions of the Taliban group. The intelligence of this group arrested him on the charge of cooperation with the National Resistance Front, he said: “The Taliban group tortured me in four months of prison, including sticking needles in my body; they have used to get a forced confession.
He also said: “Since my body became weak and weak under the cruel torture of the Taliban soldiers, I said to the Taliban soldiers, please kill me!” So why don’t you kill me?” this former army officer, who has spent four months in the prison of the Taliban group, says, “I can’t move and I pray that I wish to die!” After three months of his release from the prison of this group, he cannot walk.
At the same time, another soldier of the former Afghanistan army, also narrating the same story of his imprisonment by the Taliban group, said that only those who understand the condition of the Taliban prisons, who have unfortunately been imprisoned, imagine the cruelty and types of torture used in the prisons of the Taliban group. The rest who did not experienced the Taliban prison cannot imagine what is going on in the prisons.
This former army officer, pseudonym of Elias Hamid, who is a resident of Panjshir province and lives in Kabul, said that the Taliban group arrested him from his home in the 500-family area of Kabul city and transferred him to Shash Darak on the charge of cooperation with the National Resistance Front. He said that in the prison of the Taliban group, in addition to common and inhumane tortures, this group used a new cruel torture method using Iranian carpets, which first “wraps” the prisoner in that carpet and then they beat him severely with iron bars. This officer stated that the purpose of using the carpet in the torture centers of the Taliban group was the absence of torture marks on the prisoner’s body and said: “When a prisoner is beaten on the carpet they twist and then severely torture, the person’s bones are severely damaged and leave no external marks.”
There have been reports of Taliban members urinating on the faces of prisoners and feeding them with human excrement while being detained as former Afghanistan government soldiers every day since their rule. They were arrested and imprisoned because of their demand to open the doors of schools and universities, they also said that members of this group were urinating along with electric shocks, sleeplessness, painful tortures and stripping their bodies.
The prisons of the Taliban group are full of soldiers of the previous government, employees of the republican system and non-Pashtun citizens who were detained by the Taliban group in the name of cooperation with the National Resistance Front and without any kind of supervision by international human rights organizations and domestic institutions, with all kinds of painful tortures, major inhumane and non-Islami crimes.