The United States has announced the closure of Bagram prison in Afghanistan.<br />The detention facility, on the outskirts of Kabul, has long been considered by some as Afghanistan’s Guantanamo Bay. <br /><br /> A US defence department spokesmen said US now has no detainees in custody anywhere in the country.<br /><br /> The move comes the day after the reputation of America’s CIA took a battering following a scathing Senate report on its interrogation techniques.<br /><br /> Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has vowed to investigate the abuse of Afghans.<br /><br /> The report disclosed that a secret CIA centre known as Detention Site Cobalt, just outside Kabul was one of the first places where interrogators used techniques that included beatings,and exposure to cold.<br /><br /> The abuse of captured Afghanis has been an emotive issue for the country throughout the 13 years of fighting.
