Anti-corruption court goes afterKABUL -- Afghanistan's anti-corruption court has held its inaugural public hearings in Kabul, the first steps on the long road to transparency in one of the most corrupt countries in the world — and expectations are immense. These, according to anti-corruption NGO Transparency International, are numerous. The anti-corruption center, the fulfilment of a promise made by President Ashraf Ghani to the international community last May, is armed with prosecutors, judges and police criminal investigators, and had a war chest of half a million dollars for its first four months. Thirty-five people, including 14 judges, have been assigned to the center, which comprises a court of first instance and a court of appeal. Earlier this month the court handed down its first sentence: two and a half years in prison for military prosecutor General Abdul Haye Jurat.

Source: The China Post November 29, 2016 16:30 UTC