A former Taliban commander has been sentenced in New York to 42 years in prison for crimes including the 2008 kidnapping of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

The lawyer for an Afghan commander awaiting trial in Manhattan federal court says it's preposterous to charge his client in the killing of three American soldiers.

A state judge who first handled the case had issued a narrower restraining order that temporarily blocked the public disclosure of records concerning unsubstantiated and non-finalized allegations or settlement agreements. In all, the searchable database contains 12,056 complaints against 3,996 active NYPD officers. But we believe the public good it could do outweighs the potential harm, ProPublica Editor-in-Chief Stephen Engelberg said. In issuing the temporary restraining order, Failla also barred the New York chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union from publicly releasing records it had already obtained. The organization said it requested officer misconduct complaints from the CCRB under the states open records law and received them before the unions lawsuit was filed.