Eight Afghan individuals have been held at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay for years without concrete evidence, a new report by an independent group says.
According to the report, released by the non-profit Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) on Thursday, the detainees at the notorious prison have been held for years on tenuous evidence and the US military has been unable to substantiate accusations against any of them.
The report said that military and court documents outlining the evidence against the eight Afghan detainees were “rife with hearsay, secret evidence, bad translations, gross errors of fact and testimony obtained under duress and torture.”
It also said none of the men had been captured on the battlefield, nor were they “accused of carrying out a particular attack.”
The independent analysis group described the US invasion of Afghanistan and its arbitrary detention of Afghans as “gross miscarriages of justice,” and a major factor in driving some Afghans toward militancy.