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But his family says he's an innocent man who has been tortured by his jailers, and there are growing calls for the 38-year-old to be released and allowed to return home after the "seven-year nightmare".

They say that in the days following his arrest he was tortured and coerced into signing a false confession to participation in the killings.

As Avery Tolar, the senior partner at a Memphis law firm deeply entrenched in the criminal enterprises of a Chicago mob family, Hackman brought depth in the shades of a tortured man in too deep.

A preliminary police investigation said she had been tortured.

Dozens have reportedly been beaten, tortured, or killed by the Taliban since the group regained control of the country.