US fails to probe Afghan detainee abuse: rights group

NEW YORK (AFP) - The United States has failed to investigate and prosecute "numerous" cases of abuse and killings of Afghan detainees implicating US military and CIA personnel, a rights group has said.

Human Rights Watch welcomed this week's jail sentence against a CIA contractor who was convicted of beating an Afghan detainee, but the New York-based group said it was "singular exception to an otherwise poor record of accountability."

"No one should be above the law in Afghanistan," Sam Zarifi, Human Rights Watch's Asia research director, said in a statement.

"The United States and its allies have promised to reform the rule of law and the justice system in Afghanistan, but until the US is willing to provide accountability for its own forces, these pledges are not credible," he said.

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