OTTAWA - The government denies it turned a blind eye to the torture of detainees handed over to local authorities by Canadian troops in Afghanistan.
Opposition MPs pointed today to fresh allegations of prisoner abuse made in a stack of documents the government tabled in Parliament.
Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon says all allegations have been investigated and all turned out to be unfounded.
The newly released documents show a Canadian soldier alleged that Afghan authorities routinely executed detainees his unit handed over to them.
The records also say detainees at a Kandahar prison told Foreign Affairs and Corrections Canada officials on a site tour that they had been tortured.
And they reveal that a Canadian military policewoman stationed at the Kandahar base was attacked in early 2008 upon getting out of the shower and told to mind her own business.
The opposition has been pressing for full access to documents about the detainee transfers, saying they will help explain what politicians and military commanders knew about the affair.
The government released more than 2,500 pages on the issue Thursday, but the material was greeted with scorn from the opposition because key information was blacked out.
Questions have simmered since diplomat-whistleblower Richard Colvin's allegations last year that most prisoners Canada transferred to Afghan custody were subsequently tortured.
