Prison holding Taliban fighters overcrowded

Monday, December 24, 2001

SHIBERGAN, Afghanistan -- Hafiz Ihsan Saeed pointed to the untreated, infected shrapnel wound in his chest, his bare feet on the freezing concrete and his empty stomach and pleaded Sunday for help on behalf of all the Taliban inmates at Shibergan prison.

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