KABUL or lower house of parliament on Saturday approved a presidential decree prohibiting torture at prisons and detention centres with a majority vote.
The house approved the decree after some amendments were incorporated by the judicial commission of the house in some articles. The decree was put to a vote during today’s general session and endorsed.
The Wolesi Jirga modified the sixth and 13th articles of the draft law and then approved it.
The Wolesi Jirga judicial commission head, Hassan Sharifi Balkhabi, said . . .
