Amnesty International, the world recognized watchdog, has strongly opposed the US decision to transfer Afghan detainees from Guantanamo Bay prison to Afghanistan, a press release of the right agency received in Kabul Saturday said.

"Guantanamo Bay detainees who are returned to Afghanistan may be at risk of torture, ill-treatment and other human right abuses," the London-based watchdog warned in the statement.

The statement issued after the announcement of Washington to hand over some 110 Afghan detainees languishing at the notorious US Naval base detention center of Guantanamo Bay over the past three and half years on charge of alleged links with Taliban and al-Qaida networks.

US administration would also adopt similar approach with detainees from Saudi Arabia and Yemen and send them to their homeland for further trial.

The US has so far released over 200 Afghan detainees from Guantanamo Bay after prosecution and punishment, but this time would hand the prisoners over to their government for interrogation.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai in his meeting with President Bush in Washington last May suggested the hand over of all Afghan detainees to Afghan administration but the US leader rejected the request at that time.

Amnesty International in its press release also said that the US State Department Report for Afghanistan in 2004 reported that prisoners were beaten, tortured or denied adequate food in the post-war nation.

"The US should close Guantanamo and either charge the detainees under US law or release them," the statement quoted Sharon Critoph,North America researcher at Amnesty International, as saying.

Source: Xinhua