AMSTERDAM, Jan 29: The Dutch appeal court on Monday upheld jail sentences against two former top Afghan secret policemen convicted of war crimes and torturing opponents of Afghanistan's communist government during the 1980s. Hesamuddin Hesam and Habibullah Jalalzoy had appealed against jail terms of 12 and nine years respectively, imposed in 2005 by a lower court. Hesam, the former head of the Khad secret police between 1983 and 1991, and Jalalzoy, the organisation's one-time head of interrogation, were arrested in 2004.—Reuters

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