KABUL: The United States and international rights groups urged Afghanistan on Wednesday to immediately free two civil society activists arrested after they reported that hundreds of school children had suffered sexual abuse.
In a statement, the NDS said the two were moved to a safe location because of threats to their lives. It accused them of admitting during interrogations that they had made up the allegations in order to get asylum in a foreign country. "It's appalling to coerce confessions from civil society activists," Bass said in a tweet, calling for both men to be released.London-based Amnesty International called for the immediate release of Musa and Hamidi and said they were at risk of torture and ill treatment.
President Ashraf Ghani said he was"deeply disturbed" by the sexual abuse reports and that he had ordered the education ministry to undertake a thorough investigation and report back to him as soon as possible.
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