Black jail
The black jail is a US military detention camp established in 2002 inside Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, distinct from the main prison and consisting of individual windowless concrete cells, each illuminated by a single light bulb glowing 24 hours a day.[1][2][3]
Although U.S. President Barack Obama signed an order to eliminate black sites run by the Central Intelligence Agency in January 2009,[4] that order did not apply to the black jail, which is run by military Special Operations forces.[1] However, in August, the Obama administration restricted the time that detainees could be held at the secret jail, and another like it at Balad Air Base in Iraq, to two weeks.[1] Human rights organisations are concerned that the jail remains inaccessible both to the Red Cross and the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission.[1][5][6] The ICRC has claimed that it had been receiving names of inmates since 2009.[7]
The BBC reported on 11 May 2010 that the Red Cross had confirmed its existence to them as well as hearing the accounts of former inmates.[8][9]
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