Afghanistan: Ex-Bagram inmates recount stories of abuse, torture

A warning some of you may find the testimonies in this report disturbing.
Twenty years after the United States invasion of Afghanistan, Afghans who were imprisoned, tortured and abused at Bagram airbase and prison complex are now able to revisit their jail cells after the Taliban takeover.
Taliban fighters say they feel happy to be there once again as victors, not captives.
Al Jazeera’s Osama Bin Javaid has been given rare access to the now abandoned Bagram airbase and prison complex.
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[@CalvinK300]

US citizens should watch this and decide if they want their country to continue this kind of atrocities. If they don’t want, lobby their politicians. If they want, then don’t be a hypocrite and criticise others!

[@axel665]

that can be said about anyone even taliban since taliban is also doing this so yeah who is hypocrite here everyone and you asking hte question can be asked by afghans to taliban seriously this comment make o sense since taliban also tortures people everyone is aa hypocrite

[@nabeel6615]

 but usa came to Afghanistan ?? Sooo ??

[@irfanradzi2161]

@@axel665 Have you seen the interview of released Taliban prisoner?

[@operator9858]

lobbying is what got this country into its current state. its not going to solve anything especially from some stuffed corporate suit claiming to be an advocate or politician. how can you still think this after all these years?

[@mohdsaleemsiddiqui6088]

@@axel665 so who given you the flag of freedom and equality to impose on every country by force when you are no different

[@maroofshehzad4504]

How shameful is the US for screaming human rights concern on the Taliban government but puts a blind eye on their own cruelty and atrocities. Disgusting country and disgraceful military.

[@TheWorldInsider]

Yes and it’s not like this is unbelievable. During the Cold War the us made soviets look like evil monsters at the same time the US conducted massacres in Korea and Vietnam alike slaughtering and raping innocent civilians and now they try to hide it. They condemn the Japanese for doing it in WW2 but less than 3 decades later they do the same

[@peacepaix4756]

Shame of American people world need to see how the said you many rightl But one day the will be ask by Allah

[@peacepaix4756]

@King Of Dust because you familly are not there you dont feel pain

[@whitneysmith6752]

Interesting how we are all to just automatically believe all these accounts without possibly considering this is propaganda? We all know the Talibans “reputation”. ☠️

[@peacepaix4756]

smith but the did Iraq Iraq sirya japan

[@aabdulll]

Those behind this brutal prison are the same ones who preach and shout "Human Rights" to the rest of the world!

[@peaceamongworlds9230]

Good thing terrorists aren't human.

[@picangi]

It's always better then amputation, stoning and death

[@aryub5851]

💩💩

[@brokenbutterfly3178]

@@picangi are you for real?

[@NilufarBegumBangladesh]

The torture was terrible. The foreign occupation was brutal. It is great that the Taliban declared General Amnesty despite all brutality.

[@nixenvines007]

Atleast such torture is better than taliban torture

[@Abdullah-mn6sw]

@@nixenvines007 What? Are you serious?

[@rajababy2009]

@@nixenvines007 lol such pathetic answer from a pathetic person

[@lahoreaskari2651]

@@nixenvines007 Stop copying and pasting. Or are you a bot?

[@ssa6227]

It is a crusade against Islam so they will never acknowledge our good and will always hide their own evil.

[@foysalmohammad.5796]

Tjis America are now telling us about human rights. How funny!

[@khalidfinakhan8478]

Way America talk about human Rights ? 🙈🙉🙊

[@kishascape]

Julian Assange tried to expose this by merely reporting legal journalism and was unlawfully and inhumanely incarcerated by Obama and Hillary Clinton.

[@giveaway.payback]

Usa and it's allies (uk, France, German, Australia, afghanis interpreters) were involved

[@Christian-Roots818]

Yup, they did it !

[@killuminatianonymous5551]

As an American I can understand there’s a lot we are not told. As one calls a group terrorist they call them freedom fighters. Part of me hates the government for selling bullshit lies that teens believe because they then go take anger out on innocent people.

[@giveaway.payback]

@@killuminatianonymous5551 gangsta rap made me do it... "Ice cube"

[@imantodeinkhilafat856]

Therefore the afghan women love the rights given by there own people talibans not the US who is terrorist and agent of Israel

[@killuminatianonymous5551]

@@imantodeinkhilafat856 it’s more like the men and women who stay rather deal with peace from war and deal with the restrictions. And yes, the US are terrorists and Israel is a *Zionist* nation!

[@rimaakhter8614]

Western media never see this type of things

[@CarlDidur]

In the West (where I am from) these truths are hidden. If you want to talk about this stuff you are unwelcome most of the time. Good people still working all around the world, I hope, to end these abuses of power, but I don't hold my breath... Anyway, now that the Americans are gone, they can't hide this shameful prison where they practiced torture. They still have Guantanemo!!

[@CommunistStalin]

Even endian

[@tirelesssoul3232]

Ironically, the same Uncle Sam is worried for human rights.

[@opu_404]

after knowing the truth will you still say that the USA was on a peace keeping mission?

[@flacoanemico5199]

They only believe in piece keeping mission. Dividing and sowing discord where ever they go. God will devide them soon. They will end up doing to them selves that wich they did to others.

[@opu_404]

@@flacoanemico5199 We don't hate Americans, We hate the politicians. They're dividing the humanity , creating racism & islamophobia.

[@opu_404]

@King Of Dust that's the problem with you not me. Twin tower was a conspiracy, it has nothing to do with Islam.

[@opu_404]

@King Of Dust & you calling beheaded? seek the truth & you will be freed. You can't learn the bible without going through the scriptures & you can't even understand Islam without knowing the Quran. I would request you to go through the Quran ,not any people, not any media. You can't learn physics from a literature teacher & so you can't learn Islam from media.

[@dreamcloud2412]

@King Of Dust because of your same crime in Palestine.

[@akbarali-fh4rb]

Now media has forgotten that despite torture talibans announced amnesty.

[@ssa6227]

This is the thing brother. No matter how good we do they underplay it. And highlight least bad of ours. All this cry for woman's rights is actually Islamophobia in disguise make no mistake. They have no sympathy for us. It is a crusade against Islam. Plain and simple.

[@frogers98]

@@ssa6227 or maybe people think women shouldn't be treated as property? What America did in these prisons was horrific but that doesn't mean the Taliban aren't also horrific

[@ssa6227]

@@frogers98 No if they really cared why they never notice millions of women raped and killed in their wombs in India? Why didn't they care for rapes and kidnappings of Afghan women during Ghani reign? Israel is jailing children why no cry there? Don't tell me BS about women's care. Truth is it is Islamophobia. They cannot digest Islamic government. No matter how much they improve plain and simple.

[@frogers98]

@@ssa6227 they can't and shouldn't police the entire world, they just withdrew from Afghanistan after being at war with the Taliban so of course they're going to specifically condemn how the newly in power Taliban treat women. Also, two wrongs don't make a right, just because women aren't treated well in India doesn't mean that the Taliban treat women any less badly...

[@paikuhansensei815]

@@ssa6227 exactly, Rohingya muslim women in Myanmar were r*ped after seeing how their children and husbands were to*turred and ki**d by extremist budhists yet the internacional community was silent enjoying everything. The same with palestinians and the zionists financed by bankerss from usa commiting ethnic cleansing on them...

[@sohailiqbal4659]

Where were those at that time who are crying now for women rights.

[@mohammadkhan7895]

And where are those who cry for Afghan Taliban but not the cruelty happening to PTM supporters in Waziristan?

[@mrexpress8002]

@sohail iqbal Islam gives more rights to women. Women have the right to go to school, go to university and walk the streets and go to work. they do not have to wear the niqab but dress modestly. Remember your mother is a woman too.

[@hopefulcynic6556]

They will never speak up for this.. they r evil Satan worshipping hypocrites.. their cry for women rights is just to malign taliban as they lost and can not do anything about it..

[@nixenvines007]

Atleast such torture is better than taliban torture

[@ssa6227]

The cry for women's rights is actually Islamophobia in disguise. Do you think they really care?

[@msuhail8826]

So, Who is the Real Terrorist?

[@usmanhusain5711]

Israel

[@bhatfirdous1081]

Zionists

[@Stupiditas-stupido]

Anyone who makes someone scared of you=terrorists

[@aminuaidara8601]

The US evil💩💩💩👹👹👹💩💩💩 Zionist regime with they're militarys an all the countries an people who are support them

[@JackSparrow-gv5hu]

Taliban

[@mansoorkiani2497]

Sometimes its hard to beleive how taliban can forgive all this?? When it boils anyones blood just listening to the barbarity of the civilized people

[@robleyusuf2566]

They did not forgive but taking their chances to revenge another time, not today ofcourse.

[@mienzo9800]

@@robleyusuf2566 i think by forcing the american forces an the 47 country coalition out of Afghanistan was revenge..

[@robleyusuf2566]

@@mienzo9800 not a revenge but satisfying

[@mikebutler7476]

@@mienzo9800 haaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they never forced any of us out. We decided that the GIROA was not doing a good job and we decided to leave on our terms. The Taliban could never defeat us. They tried, but couldn't. Wishful thinking. That's why they couldn't take back the government until we left. 20yrs brother. Read about it. Put your pride in a box and lock it up. Your Taliban are killers of children and women. They don't respect human rights I was there when they blew up a huge truck bomb and killed over 300 civilians including little children. They did it a lot while I was there. Baby killing Taliban. I also remember a little girl suicide bomber that they convinced to blow herself up. Wow, great group of people. You should be proud supporting them.

[@anas4146]

Those who barking all the time human rights and do destruction will be punished same like they do with this peoples 👍

[@Delta4ms]

Everyone who gets invaded by America can look to the example set by places like Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Even with all their advantages it is possible to resist them.

[@cakeyummy2401]

Lol Iraq resisted? They fell in 1 month

[@DoomshopMF312]

@@cakeyummy2401 Yeah fell but there was still resistance. Did you know we recruited many of Sudams henchmen to keep order after the invasion? Yup. Afghanistan though? Recruiting religious extremists that wasn't gonna happen.

[@jf1000jf]

The face of human rights organisations also exposed.

[@ImranKhan-gs2hy]

All this torture and murder for what? For human rights? For freedom? What hypocrisy...

[@Cushiticwarrior]

Hypocritical world

[@hopefulcynic6556]

Ya Allah.. my heart pains to watch this.. Allah s.w.t is the provider of justice for all of us..

[@percyhajee1420]

People who does this sort of evil deeds may get away on this earth, but at the end they have to answer for their crimes.

[@asimmasood3534]

The future of Afghanistan is still unknown but we should hope that Bagram jail torture will never be repeated by anyone.

[@streetfoodbts2453]

its still being repeated in Guantanamo Bay😭😭😭

[@dilanh2311]

USA should be held accountable for their war crimes

[@danielkjm]

USA never admits or pays for it's War Crimes, They hold the money and the gun

[@flacoanemico5199]

The humiliating retreat out of Afganistan is the begining of many afflictions that God will exact upon the opressors. God will bring the same afflictions they comitted. God will take their sleep, food, clothing, dignity, and family untill they wish for death. I will not be surprised if God starves them and they end up eating their own children.

[@heathermarie3820]

So should every other country that commits crimes. Why is no one harping on them?

[@Christian-Roots818]

Yes you’re right !

[@JackSparrow-gv5hu]

First hold Taliban accountable for war crimes committed during 1996-2001.

[@ziyadahmad2055]

How shamefull and barbaric. Now the world is asleep to see this.

[@mortalman5496]

Talibs should make it a Tourist spot to let ppl see the atrocities of imperialists who talk so much about Humanity, Human rights. And what they in reality are. Look at the Prisons of their own ppl, how humble and Lenient they are even with the convicted Criminals and how they treat them and on the other side how they are. Shows their double standards, injustice, sadism and hatred towards others.

[@ebooknursing3205]

I totally agree with this suggestion. They should preserve this place as it is for next generation. Let every afghan youth know how cruel and evil US is. And, US occupation should be included in the first page of their history books.

[@FurqaanQ]

Truth has prevailed AGAIN.

[@mosh71]

There was one Maldivian citizen imprisoned and his wife and children were also stuck in Afghanistan. The Taliban released him last month. Look I am neither supporting or defending Taliban in anyway (i have no need as I don't know them much). Perhaps the Maldivian who was imprisoned was innocent.

[@arifahmustafa2768]

Subhaallah they were tested to the extreme sexual manner and they were able to avoid these bakini girls. Wow these men are mentally strong

[@qamarrahman9880]

Real image of America

[@urhankhan9119]

And they are telling us human rights what a .......😡😡😡

[@socrates_the_great6209]

It is so crazy that you can't believe it.

[@TahirKhan-ro4ru]

This is the story of Human right champion

[@sirajS]

May Allah bless all the prisoners who were in Guantanamo...,🥺 aameen

[@mnikbinat4871]

I don't feel sorry for any Americans or Britishs soldiers and their government. I wish pain for them in this world and the hereafter.

[@user-jg3is2sx8r]

thank you for telling us the truth

[@riazrs6607]

How sister afiya siddique went through this horrible place😢

[@taniaakter7490]

Zajakallah for disclosing this

[@vivianaugusta3000]

God is great! May the Afghan people receive justice.

[@abc_cba]

Disgusted !

[@Hishamvillan]

Similarly, many innocent women and children have been brutally murdered.

[@sudhirpanday9443]

This one is very shameful.

[@hdnd2708]

From prison to the throne.

[@mrkingkhan6776]

Must be preserved

[@hermionegranger__]

That's totally barbaric!!!

[@twoplus7647]

Watching this boils my blood. When will the monsters be prosecuted and punished for their crimes?

[@ezw1561]

They did get punished they got tortured in those cells

[@twoplus7647]

@@ezw1561 The US terrorists didn't get punished at all. They were the ones torturing people.

[@IndiaOut1426]

Ask the captives who were captured by Taliban. No one said they were tortured. Then you say who is more humanitarian?

[@nixenvines007]

Atleast such torture is better than taliban torture

[@IndiaOut1426]

@@nixenvines007 yes. Now you showed your humanity! Clap to you.

[@folegionnaire4404]

The Taliban showed mercy to those barbarians by letting them airlift their men

[@tirelesssoul3232]

So sad

[@Emmanuel967-c2m]

So the Taliban have all of a sudden become saints?

[@syedmadani9112]

Saint or sinner ,the maker will judge on day of judgement.

[@horizonr639]

Yes they are saints.

[@baercoltd8561]

1st comment. Do you have the full version of this report?

[@SuperSimpleasthat]

1:37 sounds like a paradise. They should be thankful

[@twoplus7647]

Only to pervs. Their religion and values are very important to them. It's their identity. Do you support doing the same to Orthodox or ultra-Orthodox Jews?

[@SuperSimpleasthat]

@@twoplus7647 Yes; sir

[@mono_crome]

@UCsI6VkOuKoMolFmNlJk6ssg f$ck u stealing Land of palestine

[@pameerjaan4976]

Thanks AJ for showing the true face of the so-called champion of the human values ... Shame

[@SuperServentofAllah]

Americas and west's real meaning of freedom in full view

[@indian-jo6ul]

Pray for Ummah . May Allah SWT help Ummah and protect them from HATERS AROUND THE WORLD. Aameen

[@roupa131]

When something like this happens to us troops, parents will realize what their children have done.

[@michaelsebuala1895]

imagine you are being prisoned and tortured for saving your motherland from the invaders,.

[@hamisuhadejia3570]

These are the freedom, democracy and human rights the US took to Afghanistan?

[@tusharimran2081]

😭😭

[@shaheed03]

Americans caught Afgans in Bagram for die. They tortured inhumanly indeed

[@salamaleykum6628]

People of Afghanistan collectively must apply to international court and to UN with complaint against usa

[@onepeace1274]

And don't forget that almost all heroin production in the world comes from Afghanistan. Men, women and children grow the poppy crop together that produces death around the world. They have even destroyed the lives of many Afghanistan people with the production of opiates. Listen to Australia's news report on Afghanistan heroin production and you will see. They must be held accountable for these crimes against humanity.

[@salamaleykum6628]

@@onepeace1274 of course...during american occupation, poppy production and drug production had risen 98%...americans got good income from drugs..during Taliban, there was no production.. Why usa occupied Afghanistan? To control drug routes...everyone knows it...i am not going to check any report from western country- all those countries occupied those lands where they live now,especially australia- nation that genocided people of the whole continent,created mini- UK and called it australia...how many millions have been killed??? I dont think any australian ever thought about it...but they prefer to think about and judge others while their hands are in blood...australia or any western capitalist- occupant country means nothing for me....all their reports,media- all are falsified..all are liars....

[@MuhammadAli-gi8tw]

I thought the American soldiers was good but after seeing this I feel sorry for this people

[@diferentization]

So now we have to be sorry because this criminals and killers.

[@iqrarhasan3013]

This report shows the double standards of US, UN and western human rights commissins.

[@truejustice8849]

Justice for the victim and family

[@khyberwatch19]

Two and a half years later now 2024 and the whole Afghan nation, all ethnic groups and Taliban opponents and academics in Afghanistan stand UNITED behind the Emirate. The Taliban have proven to the Afghan people that they are honest and just rulers. Again we are a free sovereign nation with the treasures beneath our soil. Alhamdulillah

[@hindustanimusalman8404]

And these americans talks about human rights with taliban shame on US and whole world for allowing this inhumane act!

[@Gashaawani199]

US & alies...the ceartaker of Human rights 🤣🤣

[@dr.aliabbas99]

Don’t forget those who torture others will have many stress disorders in future - they can’t live a normal life

[@abidahaleem1054]

Sham on so called Human rights preacher's

[@Sanaullahvlogs312]

You will never be able to weaken us because we have Allah and we fight for Him inshallah ☝🏼🏳️❤️

[@operator9858]

when america was a real country we used to severely condemn others for doing this, but now that we have no rivals we are all about it. funny how you die the hero or become the villian.

[@akbarmohabbat4166]

Well put…..

[@meenki347]

When was America a real country that didn't treat prisoners this way? You mean white German prisoners? Learn about how America has treated all non white prisoners of war since the beginning.

[@angelantonj1939]

My question is how much can we believe these people under Taliban ...hmm...coming from torture/murder experts

[@amirulhaziq2746]

@@angelantonj1939 if they can capture people without trials and torture those people in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib to death, what makes you think they won't do the same in Bagram???

[@meenki347]

@@angelantonj1939 The US has already admitted that they torture prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other locations. That the Taliban are confirming these practices, thus confirming what America has already admitted. Makes the Taliban all the more believable.

[@ben2nd]

A sensible person might think that both sides should walk away from this powder keg.

[@afs8690]

😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@halalpolice7544]

So they use to do this and they crying human right in Afghanistan now!💀

[@Septal06]

And no one gonna talk about how Talibans tortured and killed hundred and thousands of Afghan woman’s and children.

[@TheAustrianpainters]

My respect for Afghanistan and Taliban rises day by day

[@pal-a]

Why they don't talk about crime done by Taliban. Is it allowed to use Narcotics in Islam? If not allowed how can Taliban claim they are saving Islam?

[@pal-a]

@Rizvi Yusuf good joke

[@pal-a]

@Rizvi Yusuf I take your comment sarcastucally

[@celianorris7042]

Can anyone translate what they are saying. I ask only because footage of taliban realising prisoners from bagram look healthy

[@222839]

Shame shame No one invited them to come Afghanistan. Finally defeated and left like cowards.

[@jenns2074]

Am sad to see this.. The world needs an emotional Evolution, Not a violent Revolution.. Humanity can't survive on hate, revenge, war, . Longest journey ever is from the head to the heart. ❤ peace and love to all as well as mother Earth 🌎

[@mustafahejran5453]

Curl is understatement .

[@raajn8018]

What are the Taliban doing to the people associated with previous Ghani's regime, to the singers, players, etc?? What happened in the prison is unacceptable, but Taliban is no less different.

[@Aishaa_Yunus]

At least they won‘t do half of the tortures Americans did on them.

[@rage.mpuzzler7123]

Stell dir vor , ich hätte mit dir und deine Familie und lands Leute das gemacht , was hättest du getan ? Die Taliban haben viel verziehen und zeigen Gnade, ich hätte alle bis zu tote gefoltert, sogar ihre Kinder ihre Fleisch hätte ich vor ihre Augen gegessen, ich sagte das nicht so , ich hätte es wirklich gemacht ! Wenn die Taliban weg sind , werde ich zurück gehen nach Afghanistan, ich werde alle Usbeken, Tadschen , Turkmenen, hazara und andre nicht pashtonen sowas antun , das kein Türkstämige Afghanistan jemals betritt, ich werde mehr sehr viel möhe geben und all mein Vermögen ausgeben und alle so abschlachten das die Menschen nach Millionen von jahre davon sprechen wert und glaub mir , ich bin nicht allein , solche Menschen wie mich , gibt es Millionen, wir sind der Produkt eure Hass und Taten !

[@TheResistance-ye8bh]

The Taliban provided general amnesty. The Taliban forgave them all. Afghan Ex-President Karzai currently lives in Afghanistan under the Taliban.

[@saleemhashmi4131]

Can't think in the modern civilised world such inhuman practices existing , not by uncivilized country , but by most civilised country America !

[@xenjabau4340]

Human rights advocater destroyed all human rights of Afghanis..US and UN use Human right ,children rights,women rights when they can get benefits from such tactics in fact they are the biggest abusers

[@md.fardausrabbi5456]

Where is human rights?? It's on mouth of western counties.

[@masskilla469]

I am a American Citizen and would like to say to those who have been tortured that The American People do not agree with our Government on the Torture you endured and would like you to know those that were Tortured have our Deepest Apology!! This is not what The People of America Condone or agree with and if we find others who commited in this Torture we will do all we can to bring them to justice for those terrible acts against you and Humanity!!!

[@kamalabuhenamostafa]

Humm, it's ok.

[@abdussabur9535]

@@kamalabuhenamostafa how can it be ok? Respond of bullets should be given through bullets.

[@YakrifZee]

​@@JBS2018stop lying to defend this barbarism

[@jamesloming]

No wonder the Abdul Ghani Afghanistan government collapsed so fast. The American and their allies were running a parallel and separated world of their own in Afghanistan. There was never any desire or effort to build a nation in the first place, no desire to let the Afghans run their own country, or impart any skill or knowledge to them. After they secretly left without informing, is like leaving the car key to a five years old kid, and expecting them to start driving.

[@pathankhan4433]

How can these american forces have morale if they humiliate ppl like this in prisons, they will have nothing but nightmares

[@Christian-Roots818]

Prisoners ? Ahhhhh waste my time !!!

[@franciscoburgos787]

What? You can’t take a joke?

[@Luvinist]

American soldiers were doing this so this is not torture or human rights violation. So, it was enhanced national security measures.

[@Stale_Buns]

Truly disgusting, the yanks will pay for this in due time

[@ezw1561]

Maybe we should invade your country before that happens

[@Stale_Buns]

@@ezw1561 Good luck trying lmao, your state is going to get nuked

[@momurda6]

Find 30 or so soldiers guilty, let the other 500 free.

[@jago7349]

I wonder about those women who participated in all this torture.

[@sidesweepr6289]

The irony tho, I don't see any Americans commenting on this video

[@homeaccount310]

Horrible horrible, still world call taliban a terrorist even when talibs declared general amnesty despite of suffering tortures all these years

[@aaqibkhan5508]

That is the only cause , why the Afghan govt forces not resisted against Talibans.

[@ImranKhan-rk1pm]

InshaALLAH one day you will keep them here ,your turn will come soon

[@aftabahmad1480]

Indian media will never show such news

[@nixenvines007]

Atleast such torture is better than taliban torture

[@syedmohammedhussain799]

@@nixenvines007 the Taliban doesn't torture. Its a few odd things that it hasn't done yey

[@nixenvines007]

@@syedmohammedhussain799 Haha you mean head shoot, fingers cutting, hand cutting is not torture 🤣🤣

[@syedmohammedhussain799]

@@nixenvines007 that's their "punishment".

[@nixenvines007]

@@syedmohammedhussain799 haha, thats same, that American torture is also punishment 😀, atleast they don't waste the rest of life of prisoners by cutting their hand fingers and legs😀

[@samsimmons6023]

La Illah Ila Allah, ‎ﻧَﺼْﺮٌ_ﻣٌِﻦَ_اللهِ_ﻭَﻓَﺘْﺢٌ_ﻗَﺮِﻳﺐٌ

[@thriveatworkwithWaqasMalik]

No one has right to take the rights of other simple is that. Whether it's US whether it's Taliban.. Whoever crosses the line should pay for it.