Former Afghan MP Malalai Joya told reporters in Ottawa on Thursday that Richard Colvin's testimony about the torture of Afghan detainees is accurate.

From CBC News

Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin’s claim that detainees transferred by Canadians to Afghan prisons were likely tortured is true and an “open secret” in her country, a former Afghan MP said in Ottawa on Thursday.

Colvin, who was posted in Afghanistan from 2006 to 2007, gave explosive testimony last week before a Commons’ committee, alleging that all prisoners handed over by Canadian soldiers to Afghan authorities were likely subsequently abused and that government officials were well aware of the problem.

He also said many who had been arrested were innocent people.

Malalai Joya, a human rights activist who was suspended from the Afghan parliament in 2007 for openly criticizing officials, told reporters on Thursday that Colvin is correct in his assessment.

“What he has been saying is what I’ve heard from my people,” she said.

Many of the victims are women and children detainees who have been raped, she said. “It’s not new for our people.”

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