was controversy within the Afghan government as to which ministry would be responsible for the modernized part of the prison. By January 2008, 32 captives from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and 125 captives from the Parwan Detention Facility had been transferred to Pul-e-Charkhi. The Center for Constitutional Rights reported that all of the Afghans repatriated to Afghanistan from April 2007 were sent to the Pul-e-Charkhi prison. In February 2009, a team from the United Kingdom's Channel 4 toured the American wing of the prison. By September 2009 the United States had transferred some 250 former detainees from its Guantanamo Bay detention camp to Pul-e-Charkhi, often to the shock of their waiting families, according to Human Rights First (HRF). 2021 On August 15, 2021, management of the prison was handed over to forces of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan after the fall of President Ashraf Ghani's government. The Taliban released most inmates from the jail, including many of their fellow members. See also List of prisons in Afghanistan References External links , March 10, 2017, TOLOnews. , May 16, 2011, CBC News: The National. , Jan. 24, 2009, Al Jazeera. Human Rights First; Undue Process: An Examination of Detention and Trials of Bagram Detainees in Afghanistan in April 2009 (2009) Human Rights First; Arbitrary Justice: Trial of Guantánamo and Bagram Detainees in Afghanistan (2008) Lyse Doucet's (BBC Newsnight, Afghanistan) full film from inside Pul-e-Charkhi prison Prisons in Afghanistan 1980s establishments in Afghanistan Afghanistan–Soviet Union relations