There are about 40 Pakistani citizens imprisoned at the Bagram Prison in Afghanistan without any charge or trial. They are denied the right to a legal defense, which makes them out to be the victims of a cruel detention system. Some of them have been imprisoned for more than 11 years. The only exposure they have to the outside world is through being allowed to speak to their immediate family members via Internet telephone calls. They don’t have access to the law, the media, or human rights organizations. Today these men are not much more than images on the media. Successive Pakistani governments have failed to uphold the rights of its citizens held in Bagram or help alleviate the suffering of their families in Pakistan.
Justice Project Pakistan with the aid of photojournalist AsimRafiqui, helped brought the plight of the prisoners and their families to the public through portraits and first person testimony. These images highlight real-life repercussions of indefinite torture, which entails robbing detainees and their relatives of justice and dignity. They represent the notion that it is not only the detainees who have been kept behind bars but their entire families too.

Links to Bagram reports:
1.The Complete Report.
2.Sub-Section on Recommendations.
3. Sub-Section On Government Failures.

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