3. Biodata:
Faryadi Sarwar Zardad was born 1963 in Afghanistan and hails from Pashtun Ahmadzai tribe. Commander Zardad, commander of a military post at the Lycee Shorwaki (in mid-2005) is on trial in the United Kingdom under universial jurisdication laws, for torture committed in Afghanistan in the 1990s). Zardad is a second tier commander of Hezb-e Islami party. Human Rights Watch is listing him as a Human Rights Abuser.
Zardad  fled Afghanistan in the late 1990s but was spotted in London in mid-2001 after charges were brought against him. He was convicted in 2005 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. He was deported back to Afghanistan.
Zardad Faryadi, a former Hizb-e-Islami commander, arrived back in Kabul on Dec 14, 2016 after serving more than 10 years in a U.K prison on charges of torture and human rights violations.(20161216)

Background:
Faryadi Sarwar Zardad was the first person prosecuted in the UK for the crime of torture under universal jurisdiction laws, which allow for the prosecution of crimes committed in another state. A 2004 trial ended in a mistrial when the jury failed to reach a verdict. Following a second trial in 2005, during which many of Zardad’s victims testified by video link from the UK embassy in Kabul, Zardad was found guilty and sentenced to two 20-year sentences to be served concurrently. The head of the Scotland Yard investigation, who located witnesses in Afghanistan, told The Guardian that to convince the witnesses to testify, his team had to “give them the confidence to come forward to give evidence in a British court.” The witnesses were not represented by lawyers.

In 1998, Zardad fled to Britain using a false passport to avoid persecution under the ruling Taliban, and requested asylum. He was the subject of an exposé on a BBC television programme, Newsnight, first broadcast on 26 July 2000. Zardad's presence in London had been discussed with a BBC reporter, John Simpson, by the Taliban's Foreign Minister in Kabul, Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, during an interview in 1999.

The minister had retorted to a question that "Well, you British are sheltering the criminal Commander Zardad". The BBC eventually tracked Zardad down after nearly a year, and found him living in Mitcham, Surrey. He was interviewed by Simpson for the programme, in which Zardad claimed to have been based in Kabul and had only visited Sarobi as an adviser to the local commanders. After the BBC report, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) launched an international campaign  urging the British government to prosecute Zardad. They issued a statement in many languages and circulated it through the Internet.