Following new reports confirming violation of detainee rights in the secret US-run Bagram Prison in Afghanistan, the Afghan government appointed a committee to investigate the reports. An announcement from the presidents office indicates that a panel, which include the Minister of Justice and the head of the Independent Human Rights Commission, is charged with preparing its report within two weeks.
The afghan president has ordered a probe into illegal arrests and human rights violations in a secret prison run by US forces.
According to the report by Open Society Foundation, former Bagram prisoners have revealed that US forces placed them in solitary confinement, abused them and refused them possibility of observing religious rituals.
The prisoners reported that they were also denied proper food and light and were kept in the cold without being allowed a blanket.
The prisoners were reportedly barred from receiving Red Cross visits.
The US claims that all its prisons in Afghanistan are run according to international rules of detention and inmates are treated humanely.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has confirmed the existence of a secret prison in the Bagram US military base and reportedly, over 800 prisoners are being held at this base.
In 2002 US troops beat two prisoners to death in Bagram and despite US denials, human rights groups maintain that Bagram has remained a US torture facility since the US forces toppled the Taliban regime nine years ago.