US, UK run illegal facilities in Afghanistan: Karzai

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai says the United States and Britain continue running “illegal” detention facilities in the country.

According to Press TV, Karzai said in a statement on Tuesday, “After many decrees that have been issued by the presidential palace about not having any detention centers run by foreign forces, still foreign forces are detaining Afghan and putting them in prisons.”

He added, “It’s a clear violation of the law of Afghanistan.”

Karzai’s remarks came after an investigation panel revealed that six Afghan prisoners are held at a UK-run facility at Kandahar Air Field in the country’s south and 17 others at a facility at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, which is also run by British forces.

Ghalum Farooq Barakzai, the head of the panel, said that his team has not found any prisoners at the American facilities, stressing that such facilities should no longer exist.