Sentences with phrase «afghan authorities»

Richard Colvin, the Canadian diplomat who has testified before a Parliamentary committee concerning his warnings to the government about the torture of Afghan detainees captured by the Canadian military and turned over to Afghan authorities, has released a sixteen - page letter in which he addresses the claims of the government concerning his testimony.

The Home Office knows that gay people in Afghanistan are persecuted by the state, Afghan authorities, and by homophobic individuals across society.

He said usually only around 20 Afghans were being held at any one time, but blamed British lawyers for raising question - marks about the way the detainees would be treated by the Afghan authorities.

«We would like nothing more to be handing these people to the Afghan authorities,» he complained to the same programme.

«The UK could have trained the Afghan authorities to detain people lawfully with proper standards, making sure they're treating them humanely,» lawyer Phil Shiner told the Today programme.

The time came when the Afghan authorities....

«Afghan authorities should be helped to understand that we expect them to lead the investigation into this terrorist bombing in their country,» one official wrote in late 2007.

Not exact matches

The Sayyids ruled for a time after the Tughluqs, only to be supplanted by the Lodhis, an Afghan tribe which exercised authority until they were ousted by the Mughal invader, Babar, who defeated the last of the Lodhis at the famous battle of Panipat in 933 (A.D. 1526).

Kahneman and Tversky's insight into the «wisdom of crowds» was employed when thinking about decision - making in an Afghan shura, or assembly, where the British sought to empower those individuals who had «the right ideas but the least amount of authority.»