The commission said that hundreds of the facility's detainees were beind held without formal charges [GALLO/GETTY]
Probe Accuses US Of Afghan Detainee Abuse -- Al Jazeera
Inmates at facility in Bagram tell investigating commission they were tortured and held without evidence by authorities.
Detainees at the largest prison run by the US in Afghanistan say that they were tortured and held without evidence by authorities, a government commission has heard.
The findings come just days after Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, called for the facility inside the US-run Bagram airfield, just north of Kabul, to be handed over to Afghan control.
"During our visit to Bagram some of the prisoners talked of misconduct, some alleged they had been tortured," the commission's head, Gul Rahman Qazi, told a news conference in the Afghan capital on Saturday.
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