In response to Afghanistan International's investigative report, the Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed that there is no torture in the group's prisons.

Mujahid said that the group takes care of prisoners and Taliban agents are not allowed to torture prisoners.

"There is no problem in prisons, prisoners are only supported and treated, they are not tortured, and no one is allowed to do so," a Taliban spokesman told the British newspaper The Independent.

"The media can come and see the prisons and interview the prisoners and then see what the situation is here," Mujahid added.

Based on interviews with 38 people who were arrested by the Taliban's intelligence agency, Afghanistan International revealed that more than 30 types of torture are inflicted on prisoners in Taliban detention centres.

According to the report, most of the prisoners were arrested without legal basis and subjected to severe physical and psychological torture.

Former prisoners said that Taliban agents tortured them in various ways, such as beating them with sticks, immersing their heads and bodies in cold water, electric shocks, suffocating them, removing their nails, and other painful methods.

In addition, in August, sources told Afghanistan International that at least 87 people were killed as a result of torture in Taliban’s intelligence agency prisons.

Sources said that the cause of death was electric shock, respiratory arrest, drowning in water, and torture of the sexual organs.

The Taliban rejected Afghanistan International's investigative report, while the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) also published a report on the existence of torture and ill-treatment in Taliban prisons in November.