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First female prison launched in Afghanistan

Afghanistan has launched its first prison for women on Thursday as part of a plan to build 15 such facilities, officials said.

  • Agencies
  • Published: 16:50 January 24, 2008
  • Gulf News

Kabul: Afghanistan has launched its first prison for women on Thursday as part of a plan to build 15 such facilities, officials said.

The prison was built with the assistance of Italy's government and can accommodate 330 prisoners and is equipped with furniture, sewing machines and kitchen.

Abdul Salaam Esmat, head of prisons and detention centres, said there were 275 female prisoners lodged in Afghan jails, along with their 175 children.

"Currently we are shifting 96 female prisoners and detainees from Pul-i-Charkhi prison to the new building", he said of the main prison which also holds suspected militants to east of Kabul.

"We are planning to build 15 more separate detention centres for women prisoners and detainees in other provinces in the near future," he added.


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