Court or torture chamber? Commander of the Republican Army sentenced to Taliban custody.
Continuing the repression of former soldiers, a Taliban military court has sentenced a former army commander in Parwan province to one year and six months in prison.
Local sources confirmed the news on Wednesday, July 30, saying that “Fawad Samadi,” a resident of the village of Chenki Aliyya in Sayed Khel district of Parwan, has finally been tried and sentenced to prison after spending seven months of torture in a Taliban intelligence detention center.
During the republican era, Fawad Samadi served as the commander of the army’s “Tali” in Kandahar province. However, after the Taliban took control, according to his family, he returned to a normal life and became a shopkeeper.
However, Taliban intelligence forces arrested him on January 23 of last year on charges of collaborating with the National Resistance Front; a charge his family strongly denied.
According to Samadi’s relatives, during this time he was repeatedly tortured in the Taliban’s “Forty Directorate” in Kabul and was subjected to severe mental and physical pressure without access to a lawyer or a fair trial.
This comes as increasing cases of detention, torture and heavy sentences have been reported against former soldiers in the Taliban government;
This is contrary to the group’s official declarations of a “general amnesty” and once again raises doubts about the Taliban’s sincerity in dealing with former opponents.
