How Bush’s Gitmo hurts US foreign policy. Russia creates counter Rights Violation blacklist for USA
It’s kind of hard for the USA to claim any form of moral authority and use that as a foreign policy tool against other nations like Russia when the USA is now in the human rights violation club with our very own gulags (there are more black sites outside of Gitmo I assume).
Russia warns US about blacklist
8:36pm April 12, 2013
The Kremlin sternly warned Washington against publishing a list of Russian officials barred from entering the United States because of their alleged abuse of human rights.
Russian media said the dozens of people included under the so-called “Magnitsky Act” - named after a lawyer named Sergei Magnitsky who died in prison after revealing a suspected state embezzlement scheme - would be published in the United States later on Friday.
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the officials’ public naming could leave lasting damage on future ties between the two former Cold War foes.
“The appearance of some lists will unquestionably have a very negative impact on Russian-US bilateral relations,” news agencies quoted Peskov as saying.The list has always been kept secret but is believed to include people involved in Magnitsky’s trial and prosecution as well as officials who have joined the Kremlin’s crackdown on Russians’ political rights.
The Russian officials have had their US accounts frozen and added to a list of people who will be denied entry visas. Some European nations are taking steps to adopt similar measures.
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The Russian foreign ministry has since drawn up its own blacklist of US officials who are alleged to have committed human rights violations.
A former US senior commander at the Guantanamo base in Cuba where the United States keeps terror suspects has already been denied entry by Moscow in a highly publicised case.
A former US senior commander at the Guantanamo base in Cuba where the United States keeps terror suspects has already been denied entry by Moscow in a highly publicised case.
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PS: No such sanctions exist for the Chinese further eroding any claim the USA is an impartial human rights advocate.