Torture of Canadian-transferred detainees continues

The Globe and Mail reports that Afghan detainees turned over by Canadian forces are still being tortured in Afghan prisons, according to governmental documents just released by the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association.

The Globe and Mail has established that the report of the case is recent, written after a Nov. 5, 2007, inspection of the National Directorate of Security prison in Kandahar. That was six months after a supposedly improved transfer agreement was put in place to monitor detainee treatment. The agreement was designed to address problems raised by critics about the ill treatment of prisoners taken by Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan and handed over to Afghan authorities with insufficient follow-up.

See the released documents here.