Afghan citizens of the former Bagram prison recounted details of their torture during the administration of the infamous prison by the Americans.

After the United States launched its comprehensive military operations in Afghanistan, it built many prisons to arrest what it described as "terrorists", especially members of the Taliban movement.

Among the most prominent of these prisons is "Bagram", located 50 kilometers north of the capital, Kabul. It was built by the Americans in 2002 inside the Bagram Air Base, and it includes 120 cells.

The prison - which was run by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - witnessed the arrest of thousands of Afghan citizens on various allegations, where they were subjected to interrogation and torture by various means, until it became known as "Guantanamo of Afghanistan".

In this context, Anadolu Agency met 3 Afghan citizens who were former inmates of "Bagram", where they recounted the details of what they lived through in the prison known by them as the "black cell".

Mawlawi Abdel Halim Shadim, 33, spent 3 years in Bagram prison, during which he was subjected to various types of torture.

Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Shadim said that he was arrested on false allegations, as they accused him of belonging to the armed "Haqqani Network" group, and that he was one of its leaders.

Washington and the cable accuse the Haqqani Network of deep-rooted ties to the Pakistani intelligence agency, and of orchestrating deadly attacks from its strongholds, including the 19-hour siege of the US embassy in September 2011.

The Afghan citizen added that the Americans sent advertisements to newspapers in the province in which he was living stating that "Mawlawi Shadim is a terrorist of the leaders of the Haqqani network."

He stressed that he was subjected to various types of torture, to the extent that he was deprived of food for 3 continuous days, noting that the prison guards were spraying a substance on them from the cell hole that caused burning in the eye, and that the prison administration was giving them a piece of bread that did not It is half the size of the palm of one hand.

Shadim recounts that among the types of psychological torture they were subjected to inside "Bagram" was filming them through surveillance cameras while showering and relieving themselves. He said that the prison administration forbade them from hanging a cloth jacket in front of the place designated for showering.

Bagram Prison was built by the Americans in 2002 inside Bagram Air Base and includes 120 cells (Anatolia)

Defending human rights

For his part, Afghan Ahmad Daoud Mansouri believes that the mask of "the United States' defense of human rights" has fallen in Bagram prison.

Mansouri, 32, said that he spent 7 years in this prison on charges of "incitement against the United States," adding that "those who defend human rights have imprisoned us in this place." the shape?!".

Mansouri pointed out that the prison atmosphere was very cold in the winter, and hot during the summer, and explained that despite that, the prison administration used to raise the temperature of the air conditioners in the summer, and reduce it in the winter, in another form of torture inmates.

He expressed his happiness for the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, stressing that "it is difficult to define the taste of freedom," and described the United States as an occupying power that kept the Afghan people under difficult conditions.

torture and neglect

As for Shukrullah Bek (school teacher), he said that the United States designed Bagram prison in such a way that it is impossible for a person to live in, pointing out that the prison cells housed large numbers of Quran memorizers and scholars.

He added that the inmate of Bagram prison could only die, lose his mind or become disabled, and Beck continued, "This is what they were aiming for, it is a place where it is impossible for even an animal to live."

He recounts how the prison administration once kept them on a layer of cement in cold weather for 13 days. "We were subjected to different types of torture," he said, noting that among the prisoners were elderly and sick people who found it difficult even to walk alone.

He stated that the "Bagram" administration neglected even these inmates, indicating that they were rioting to force it to bring doctors and take care of the health of those prisoners.

And in the middle of last August, the Taliban managed to control Afghanistan, coinciding with the completion of the US withdrawal from the country at the end of the same month.