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Pul-e-Charkhi prison, the Glossary

Pul-e-Charkhi prison (Pashto/Dari: زندان پل چرخی), also known as the Afghan National Detention Facility, is a maximum-security prison located next to the Ahmad Shah Baba Mina neighborhood in the eastern part of Kabul, Afghanistan.^[1]

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1980s establishments in Afghanistan
Afghanistan–Soviet Union relations
Prisons in Afghanistan
Soviet chemical weapons program

Administrative detention

Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial.

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Afghan Army

The Islamic National Army, also referred to as the Islamic Emirate Army and the Afghan Army, is the land force branch of the Afghan Armed Forces.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Ahmad Shah Baba Mina

Ahmad Shah Baba Mina (احمدشاه بابا مېنه), formerly known as Arzan Qimat (ارزان قیمت), is a neighborhood in far eastern Kabul (District 12), nearby the Pul-e-Charkhi prison.

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Ashraf Ghani

Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (born 19 May 1949) is an Afghan former politician, academic, and economist who served as the president of Afghanistan from September 2014 until August 2021, when his government was overthrown by the Taliban.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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Babrak Karmal

Babrak Karmal (Dari/Pashto:; born Sultan Hussein; 6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996) was an Afghan communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Afghanistan, serving in the post of general secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1986.

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Bagram Airfield

Bagram Airfield-BAF, also known as Bagram Air Base, is located southeast of Charikar in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan. Pul-e-Charkhi prison and Bagram Airfield are Afghanistan–Soviet Union relations.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.

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Center for Constitutional Rights

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a progressive non-profit legal advocacy organization based in New York City.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Council of Ministers (Afghanistan)

The Council of Ministers was the governmental organ in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (later the Republic of Afghanistan).

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Dari

Dari (endonym: دری), Dari Persian (فارسی دری,, or), or Eastern Persian is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan.

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Fall of Kabul (2021)

On 15 August 2021, Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul was captured by the Taliban after a major insurgent offensive that began in May 2021.

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Guantanamo Bay detention camp

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp,Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), also called GTMO (pronounced Gitmo /ˈɡɪtmoʊ/ ''GIT-moh'') on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

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Hafizullah Amin

Hafizullah Amin (حفيظ الله امين; 1 August 192927 December 1979) was an Afghan communist head of state, who served in that position for a little over three months, from September 1979 until his assassination.

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Human Rights First

Human Rights First (formerly known as the Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights) is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3), international human rights organization based in New York City, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Its work centers on four main issue areas: authoritarianism, extremism, systemic injustice and the abuse of technology.

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International Committee of the Red Cross

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a three-time Nobel Prize laureate.

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International Security Assistance Force

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was a multinational military mission in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014.

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Kabul

Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan.

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Kabul Province

Kabul (Dari/Pashto), situated in the east of the country, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.

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List of prisons in Afghanistan

There are between 24 and 77 prisons in Afghanistan. Pul-e-Charkhi prison and List of prisons in Afghanistan are prisons in Afghanistan.

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Maximum security prison

Maximum security prisons and supermax prisons are grades of high security level used by prison systems in various countries, which pose a higher level of security to prevent prisoners from escaping and/or doing harm to other inmates or security guards.

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Ministry of Interior Affairs (Afghanistan)

The Ministry of Interior Affairs (وزارت امور داخله افغانستان, د افغانستان د کورنیو چارو وزارت.) is the cabinet ministry of Afghanistan responsible for law enforcement, civil order and fighting crime.

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Mohammad Daoud Khan

Mohammad Daoud Khan (محمد داود خان; also romanized as Daud Khan or Dawood Khan; 18July 190928April 1978) was an Afghan military officer and politician who served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and, as leader of the 1973 Afghan coup d'état which overthrew the monarchy, served as the first president of Afghanistan from 1973 until his assassination in the Saur Revolution.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.

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Nur Muhammad Taraki

Nur Muhammad Taraki (14 July 1917 – 9 October 1979) was an Afghan revolutionary communist politician, journalist and writer.

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Parwan Detention Facility

The Parwan Detention Facility (also called Detention Facility in Parwan or Bagram prison) is Afghanistan's main military prison. Pul-e-Charkhi prison and Parwan Detention Facility are prisons in Afghanistan.

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People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) was a Marxist–Leninist political party in Afghanistan established on 1 January 1965.

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Prisoner

A prisoner (also known as an inmate or detainee) is a person who is deprived of liberty against their will.

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Razor

A razor is a bladed tool primarily used in the removal of body hair through the act of shaving.

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Saur Revolution

The Saur Revolution or Sowr Revolution (د ثور انقلاب; إنقلاب ثور), also known as the April Revolution or the April Coup, was staged on 27–28 April 1978 (rtl) by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) and overthrew Afghan president Mohammad Daoud Khan, who had himself taken power in the 1973 Afghan coup d'état and established an autocratic one-party system in the country.

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Soviet–Afghan War

The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters. Pul-e-Charkhi prison and Soviet–Afghan War are Afghanistan–Soviet Union relations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pul-e-Charkhi_prison

Also known as Pol-e-Charkhi, Pol-e-Charkhi prison, Policharki, Policharki Prison, Policharki district, Pul-e-Charkhi, Pul-e-Charkhi jail, Pul-e-Charki jail, Pul-e-Charki prison, Pulicharkhi jail.

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See also

1980s establishments in Afghanistan

Afghanistan–Soviet Union relations

Prisons in Afghanistan

Soviet chemical weapons program

References