Officials of the Office of Prisons Administration announced Saturday there are currently 16 foreigners in prisons in Afghanistan.
Habibullah Badr, the military deputy of the Office of Prisons Administration, said in the government’s accountability program that five of the foreign prisoners in Afghanistan are women.
He also said that there are 16,000 prisoners across the country, 1,194 of whom are women.
Badr added that there are 1,089 children prisoners across the country, including 47 girls.
According to him, 250 members of the military forces of the Islamic Emirate have been imprisoned for violating the government policy or traffic accidents.
Meanwhile, Mohammad Yusuf Mestri, the general director of the Office of Prisons Administration, said that Iran has handed over 1,230 Afghan citizens who were arrested in connection with drugs to Afghanistan.
He added that currently about 4,000 Afghans accused of various crimes are in Iranian prisons and as a result of the Islamic Emirate’s efforts, the death sentence of 250 Afghan citizens has been turned into imprisonment.
