Attorneys for American imprisoned by Taliban file urgent petitions with U.N.
CBSN
Attorneys for Ryan Corbett, an American who has been imprisoned without charge by the Taliban in Afghanistan since August 2022, filed urgent petitions on Thursday with the United Nations in the latest push for his release.
The petitions include testimonies from two recently released, non-American detainees who described Corbett's deteriorating mental and physical condition as well as descriptions of torture and other cruel and degrading treatment by the Taliban.
Filed before the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture and the U.N. Working Group for Arbitrary Detention, the petitions said the individuals who were jailed with Corbett expressed concerns that the 40-year-old father of three could die soon, due to medical problems, maltreatment or self-harm.
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