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| |  | | Faryadi Sarwar Zardad | | | context : | Afghanistan  | | judgement place : | Great Britain | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Was tried in 2004 for torture and hostage taking in Afghanistan; the jury was hung; the retrial in July 2005 lead to a 20 years sentence | | position : | Lieutenant of a Warlord; commander of a checkpoint |
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| | | | After the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, the country was controled by warlords. Sarwar Zardad, 42, rejoined the group of warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar known as the Hezb-I-islami, the Islamic party. Since 1992 he was in control of a checkpoint located in Sarobi on the route between Kabul and Pakistan.
Known as Commander Zardad or Zardad Khan, he controlled more than a 1’000 men who terrorised, tortured, imprisoned blackmailed and killed civilians passing by this important route.
As a result of the Talibans’ rise to power in Afghanistan in 1996, Zardad arrived to the United Kingdom in 1998 seeking asylum with a faked passport.
He was living in Gleneagle Road, Streatham, Kent, at the south of London and was running a pizzeria at Bexleyheath in Kent.
He was arrested in July 2003. | |     click for more... | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | last time seen : | | | London | | | judgement period : | | | 09.10.2004 | | | charges : | | | Other
Torture | | | profile last modified : | | | 18.01.2007 |
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