Five US Officials Set In Russia’s Blacklists

Russia, USKABUL: (MEP) Russia placed five former law-enforcement officials from the United States Americans on a blacklist yesterday for alleged rights abuses, shortly after Washington added five persons to its sanctions list, accusing the United States of “medieval torture”.

The United States on Monday blacklisted four Russian officials and a Ukrainian it accuses of human rights abuses, involving the 2009 death in prison of a Russian lawyer.

“We must remind that it was the United States that officially legalised and actively used medieval torture in the beginning of the 21st century,” the Russian foreign ministry said on Tuesday in a statement.

The Ministry added that it had sanctioned five former US officials, including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, citing their alleged role in the “legalization and use of torture and indefinite detentions.”

“We are talking about a policy that has allowed the keeping of Russian citizen [Ravil] Mingazov in Guantanamo prison without a trial for over 13 years,” the statement added.

Besides Gonzales, it blacklisted former US undersecretary of defence Douglas Feith, CIA lawyer John Rizzo, former Assistant Attorney General Jay Scott Bybee and former General Counsel of the Department of Defence William James Haynes II.

They would be barred from entering Russia “as a response to Washington’s anti-Russian policy,” the ministry said.

It also said that Washington should address its “police violence with racial undertones and a penitentiary system that is far from perfect.”

 

 

 

 

 

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