Pul-e-Charkhi prison
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Pul-e-Charkhi prison (Arabic: سجن بوليشرخي) is a large pentagon-shaped prison in Afghanistan near Kabul. Construction of the jail was begun in the 1970s by order of then-president Mohammed Daoud Khan. The prison became notorious for torture and other abuses after it came under the control of Afghanistan's communist government following the invasion by the Soviet Union.
