OTTAWA - A Foreign Affairs official says he kept hearing allegations of abuse after Canada stopped handing over prisoners to Afghan authorities in November 2007.
Nicholas Gosselin told a military watchdog there were at least eight more allegations of torture between January and August 2008.
Canada halted transfers in November 2007 after Gosselin visited an Afghan jail and saw implements of torture -- an electric wire and a rubber pipe -- under a chair that supported a prisoner's torture claim.
He told the Military Police Complaints Commission after that November 2007 visit Foreign Affairs officials stepped up the frequency of their visits to the jail.
Gosselin says Canadian officials started going to the jail once every two days.
He says the Canadians had a hard time identifying prisoners because the filing system in the jail was "archaic," and officials had to "check and double-check" all the time to ensure the right prisoner was in custody.
