Canadian Row Over Afghan 'abuse'

At least 30 detainees told Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper that they were tortured in Afghan prisons after being handed over by Canadian armed forces based in Kandahar to Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security. The allegations of brutality range from beatings to starvation, to being left naked outside in freezing temperatures. Some of the men also say they were whipped with electrical cables. In the face of a storm of opposition questions in the Canadian parliament, Prime Minister Stephen Harper defiantly defended the controversial prisoner exchange deal. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/6586951.stm

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