Major Richard Streatfeild: 'I was aware of Afghans being held'

Lawyers acting for a group of Afghans - being held without charge by British forces at a facility in Camp Bastion - have claimed that up to 85 Afghan nationals are being kept at the site, in what could amount to unlawful detention and internment.

A solicitor for eight of the detainees told BBC News the site was a "secret facility" of which parliament was unaware.

The Ministry of Defence said some of the people being held were suspected of killing British soldiers.

Major Richard Streatfeild, who returned from active service in Afghanistan in 2010, told the Today programme's Evan Davis that he "was aware of people being held longer than 96 hours but I also knew that those people were the exception rather than the rule."

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Wednesday 29 May 2013.