KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- NATO inspectors have found no recent evidence suspected Taliban held at Afghan detention centers are being tortured, a spokesman said Wednesday.
The coalition resumed transferring detainees to Afghan custody in January. Transfers had been stopped last fall because of torture allegations.
Maj. Carl Dick, a U.S. officer involved in the inspection program, said 12 of the 16 detention centers in Afghanistan have been inspected, and the government has replaced the top officials at several of the centers, The Washington Post reported. The United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross are also involved in the inspections, he told reporters.
"We see no gross violations of human rights," he said.
A U.N. report was released in October that said torture was being used in many of the detention centers with confessions obtained through beatings and electric shocks. Four of the centers have not been certified and are not being used for transfers.
