The Future for Afghanistan After the Taliban took over in August 2021, most of the inmates from Pul-e-Charkhi prison were freed. According to the ICRC there had previously been more than 9,000 inmates, including detainees transferred from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, and after the mass release only a few hundred remain in prison. Some former Taliban inmates were since reported to be in charge of the prison or serving as prison guards. Details of the prisoners freed and those left behind bars remains unknown. There were several reports of reprisal killings and executions, especially in Panjshir, carried out by the Taliban across the county, yet no known monitoring has taken place by authoritative bodies. Given the rapidly changing political developments in Afghanistan, as well as the deteriorating human rights conditions at the hands of the Taliban, the future for foreign nationals in Afghanistan remains to be seen. Acknowledgments With special thanks to Munazza Ebtikar who contributed to this research in Afghanistan, among others. Death Penalty Research Unit, University of Oxford For more research see: foreign-nationals.uwazi.io or tinyurl.com/mappingdeathrow

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