The UN Independent Expert on Human Rights in Afghanistan, Cherif Bassiouni, has also voiced "grave concern" over "a very unusual practice" in which foreign coalition forces have taken upon themselves the right, without legal process, to arrest people, detain them, mistreat them and possibly even torture them.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=13260&Cr=afghan&Cr1
http://tinyurl.com/3pg3u


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