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Freed prisoners say Taliban kept them hungry for days

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LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Some of the freed prisoners from a Taliban jail in southern Helmand province on Tuesday said they were beaten and kept hungry for days.

Some 60 people, including Afghan soldiers, and policemen and civilians, were freed from the jail as a result of a joint operation by the Afghan and US special forces in Nawzad district of Helmand.

“I am from Sangin district. Taliban captured me four years and eight months ago on the charge of working with police,” one of the freed men, Ziauddin . . .

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