Former Afghan Warlord Found Guilty of Torture
From Times Wire Reports
BRITAIN
A British jury convicted a former Afghan warlord of torture and hostage-taking after what prosecutors called the first trial in Britain of a foreigner for crimes in his homeland. Victims testified via video from the British Embassy in Kabul.
For much of the 1990s, Faryadi Sarwar Zardad and his men ran a fiefdom of fear on the outskirts of Kabul, the Afghan capital.
Zardad, who came to London in 1998 on a fake passport, was managing a pizza restaurant when arrested. He denied the charges.
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