Kandahar detention facility
- Kandahar detention facility
The United States is known to have run a detention and interrogation center in the Sarposa Prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan.[cite news]
url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,503589,00.html
title=German Soldiers under fire: New Testimony May Back Kurnaz Torture Claims
author=John Goetz, Holger Stark
publisher=Der Spiegel
date=September 3 2007
accessdate=2007-09-03] A number of the captives were later transported to controversial extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.Prison Break, June 13, 2008
Associated Press and Reuters News agencies both reported that the main gates of the detention center were blown and the majority of the more than 1,100 detainees escaped, including up to 400 "Taliban" prisoners. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/world/asia/14kandahar.html?ref=world "New York Times", June 14, 2008]
Captives reported to have been in held in American custody in Kandahar
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