Synopsis
An Afghan taxi driver called Dilawar died days after being arrested & questioned by US forces at Bagram airbase. The programme concludes that he died after being tortured. Part of the Why Democracy? season.
- Programme: Storyville
- Episode: Taxi to the Dark Side
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2007
- Politics
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