The Afghanistan government has said it is disappointed by the punishment given to American troops convicted of abusing two Afghan detainees who later died.
The government has said the two soldiers - sentenced up to three months in prison - had been shown unexpected leniency.
These were the first judicial sentences given to any US soldier convicted of abuse in Afghanistan since 2001.
A US-based human rights group has condemned the sentence as too lenient.
A spokesman for the Afghan president Hamid Karzai said the soldiers should have been severely punished.
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