The Independent of London is reporting the US has forced out a top human rights investigator at the United Nations just days after he released a report criticizing the US for committing human rights abuses in Afghanistan. The Egyptian-born law professor Cherif Bassiouni had spent a year in Afghanistan interviewing Afghans, international agency staff and the Afghan Human Rights Commission. His official title was “independent expert on human rights in Afghanistan.” In his new report, Bassiouni accused US troops of breaking into homes, arbitrarily arresting residents and torturing detainees. He estimated that around 1,000 Afghans had been detained. Bassiouni also indicated that the US-led forces had committed “sexual abuse, beatings, torture and use of force resulting in death.” He wrote “When these forces directly engage in practices that violate… international human rights and international humanitarian law, they undermine the national project of establishing a legal basis for the use of force.” Just days after he released his report, the UN eliminated his job under pressure from the United States.