{"id":12766,"date":"2025-07-31T01:28:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12766"},"modified":"2025-07-31T01:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:58:43","slug":"court-or-torture-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/court-or-torture-chamber\/","title":{"rendered":"Court or torture chamber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12761\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dadgah-talib.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Court or torture chamber? Commander of the Republican Army sentenced to Taliban custody.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Local sources confirmed the news on Wednesday, July 30, saying that \u201cFawad Samadi,\u201d 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>During the republican era, Fawad Samadi served as the commander of the army\u2019s \u201cTali\u201d in Kandahar province. However, after the Taliban took control, according to his family, he returned to a normal life and became a shopkeeper.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to Samadi\u2019s relatives, during this time he was repeatedly tortured in the Taliban\u2019s \u201cForty Directorate\u201d in Kabul and was subjected to severe mental and physical pressure without access to a lawyer or a fair trial.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This comes as increasing cases of detention, torture and heavy sentences have been reported against former soldiers in the Taliban government;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This is contrary to the group\u2019s official declarations of a \u201cgeneral amnesty\u201d and once again raises doubts about the Taliban\u2019s sincerity in dealing with former opponents.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cFawad Samadi,\u201d a resident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12767,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12766\/revisions\/12767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}