About 1,300 Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners, protesting
against a uniform regime separating political and criminal
prisoners, rioted in Afghanistan taking over the control
block of the main jail at Pul-e-Charkhi. Officials said that
the prisoners broke through interconnecting walls, including
those that separated the women and "joined together and
organized a riot." The Afghan Independent Human Rights
Commission said that the riot was staged by Taliban
prisoners wanting to escape and called it a "political
issue." Guards fired their guns to contain the riot from
spreading.
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