Do not report on cases of detention center inmates dying during sleep.
In the past six weeks, Human Rights Watch has logged over a hundred cases of detention for advocacy across the country.
And while there may be fewer cases of detention and torture in the north, the government fiercely pursues its war against the south.
These will inevitably include some of the most serious cases: of detention; torture; people who have had their fundamental rights denied.
Ms. Morayef said the cases of detention and torture did not appear to be "systematic," but added, "It is enough to set off alarm bells and call for an investigation into abuses by the military police".
Michael Gilhooly, a spokesman for a Department of Homeland Security agency called Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said that cases of detention depend on many factors, and declined to say whether Mr. McAllister would be detained if found.
One senior member of the Chechen administration in Grozny, taking a significant risk, provided documents on 163 such cases compiled under the heading, "Some cases of detention by representatives of the federal forces of civilians who subsequently disappeared or were found dead".
The group says the activist has uncovered more than 100 cases of detention that should not be occurring under deportation guidelines adopted by the Obama administration.
In July of 2011 alone, INSAN documented 8,000 cases of detentions and forced disappearances, and 70percentt of those we interviewed said they had at least one male family member detained.
"The current high court has been sending increasingly clear signals that it is prepared to defend the rule of law in the case of executive detention, and this case is a particularly compelling example of prolonged, arbitrary detention intended to be exercised without any judicial or parliamentary scrutiny".
"For President Karzai, it was just another case of illegal detention of an Afghan citizen by the U.S. forces in Afghanistan," he said.
