Taliban released their members prisoners from the Pole prison in Kabul
Only 11 days would have turned the equation inside Afghanistan upside down to give the prisoner the keys to his prison.
In the infamous “Pole” prison East of Kabul’s capital, things took a radical turn in just a few days.
The Taliban released its prisoners from this prison when they entered Kabul in the middle of last month, after 11 days of confrontations that ended with their control of governance in Afghanistan, coinciding with the withdrawal of the last American soldier from this country.
The Taliban received the key to the prison and ran it. Those who were imprisoned are released overnight, according to a report of a German newspaper that prepared the report from inside the prison.
The road to the prison, where thousands of Taliban were holed up, runs through crowded streets in central Kabul and a checkpoint manned by members of the movement.
“In general, thousands of Taliban who have targeted the Afghan government and Western forces were languishing in the eastern Pole prison just a month ago.”
Of the Taliban prisoners at Pole, 250 were former Guantanamo Bay US guards who have been transferred to the Afghan prison in recent years.
A Taliban member who accompanied the Bild team to the prison said: “We released all our prisoners.. Our men were tortured here.”
But it is difficult to verify whether this was true and whether the Taliban were actually mistreated in the prison.
According to the newspaper, the prison is made up of very small cells, there is a rotten smell in the air, dirt on the floor and flies.
After entering Kabul, the Taliban not only released their members from the prison, but also everyone who was there for theft or murder.
A member of the movement told the German newspaper: “We warned them of what would happen if they committed crimes again,” he said. “From now on our law applies.”
A month after the Taliban came to power, its “law” remains unclear, but the movement has announced that it intends to implement Sharia law soon. However, nothing has yet entered into force.
“Sharia will be applied as we know it,” Mawlawi Fadhil Rahim Mehaz, the prison’s new director, told Bild newspaper. If someone commits a theft, the punishment is usually amputation of hands.”
“If a person commits adultery and has no wife or husband, he will be flogged, and if he has a wife or husband and commits adultery, the penalty is death,” he said.
The prison commander also said, “We will carry out executions in a public place.. We invite people to watch it,” he said. “We announce this person’s sin and punishment and carry it out in public.”
“We are now simply waiting for our leaders to decide to start implementing our law.”
Public stoning or mass execution is conceivable, as in the Kabul stadium in 1996 when the Taliban first seized power.
