UNAMA has recently published a report that reveals torture and misbehaving with prisoners in Afghanistan`s prisons.
Also another report was released in 2011 by UN accusing the Afghan detention facilities torturing prisoners mainly pointed Police Departments and NDS.
Based on this report the UNAMA in Kabul expressed their concern about handing over the prisons to Ministry of Interior and stated torture will increase if the prisons hand over to Afghan government.
In the new report of this organization it is stated that more than half of the 635 prisoners who were interviewed were tortured or misbehaved.
Due to this report ISAF has suspended handing over the prisons named in the report. But Afghan government has claimed this report unrealistic and insists on handing over the prisons to Afghans.
Last week president Karzai ordered investigation on abuse of detainees in Afghan detention facilities.
The fact finding team is led by Abdul Qader Adalatkhwa, Deputy Director of the Constitutional Oversight Commission and consists of legal advisors from the MoI, NDS, UN envoys, an authorized representative from the Legal Board of the Presidential palace and Director of Law & Political Science Department of Kabul University. The result of investigation is expected to complete in two weeks.
According to the UN report 14 different methods of torturing including beating, threatening to death and sexual abuse are reported and in some cases the prisoners exposed electric shock to confess.
It is cleared in the report that torturing has increased from 35 percent to 43 percent in prisons under MoI authority in the past twelve months but the number has reduced in prisons controlled by NDS from 46 percent to 34 percent.
President Hamid Karzai has considered keeping the prisoners as important issue of national sovereignty and has called on US to hand over all Afghan prisoners to Afghanistan.
Keeping Afghan prisoners under authority of Afghanistan is an important issue and is one of the related matters to provide national sovereignty for Afghanistan. But there are challenges and problems in Afghan judicial system and must be removed alongside the transition of prisoners to Afghan jails.
According to international and national law, prisoners have rights not to mention their crimes but these rights are not observed because of the mismanaging and corruption of the government.