Jailed Taliban suspects on hunger strike in southern Afghanistan, demand fair trials

: More than 200 Taliban surmises have got gone on a hungriness work stoppage in the Kandahar prison house to demand just trials, functionaries said Sunday.

The captives have got not eaten for about six days, and three are in mediocre condition, said Bismillah Afghanmul, one of the provincial council members who met with the captives to seek to decide the situation. He said he met with nine captives who had taped their oral cavities shut.

The captives are demanding just and independent trials as well as the presence of defence lawyers during the probes and hearings, the Afghani Mugwump Person Rights Committee said in a statement.

They also complained that some of the lawsuits have got not gone before a court, leaving the detainees' fates in limbo, the committee said.

Justice Curate Mohammad Sarwar Danesh said they are right to be upset. Today on IHT.com

"The captives have got ground to criticise because the justness system is working a small slowly," Danesh said.

He said the country's top justice met with the Kandahar governor on Saturday, and a Supreme Court deputation would ran into with local functionaries in an attempt to decide the problem.

According to the human rights commission's statement, the captives complained that foreign military personnel searched their places on the footing of faulty intelligence, many lawsuits had languished without trial, and they were tortured and humiliated during the investigations.

Police standing about 100 paces from the prison house barred journalists from nearing the installation Sunday. Photographers were forbidden to take images of it.

About 100 women went to the prison house after hearing about the hungriness strike, but were also prohibited from entering.

International Committee of the Red Cross spokeswoman Graziella Leite Piccolo said it visited the captives on Saturday and Lord'S Day and is providing medical attending and endovenous fluids as needed.

Rights groupings complaint that Islamic State Of Afghanistan is prosecuting many political detainees transferred from U.S.-run prison houses in arbitrary and partial trials with small evidence.

In a study last month, New York-based Person Rights First said many political detainees — formerly held in the U.S. prison houses at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Bagram, Islamic State Of Afghanistan — were tried in legal legal proceeding based on small more than than allegations by American officials.