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The list also according to the document on Ministry of Foreign Affairs website: b. Deputy Minister of Defense for. Douglas J. Feith policy, former CIA chief legal consultant, John Rizzo, a former US deputy Justice Minister Scott Jay Bybee and former Pentagon chief legal consultant William James Haynes II.
The person concerned is forbidden to enter the territory of the Russian Federation on the basis of the Law “On measures against persons involved in violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms and rights and freedoms of Russian citizens. ” According to the Foreign Ministry are “persons in connection with the legalization and the use of torture and indefinite detention of prisoners.”
List is associated with a statement in which the Foreign Ministry explains that these persons are denied entry to Russia is “in response to Washington’s anti-Russian policy.”
The statement is a response to the extension by the United States for a further five people called. Magnitsky list, or the list of representatives of Russia banned from entering the USA and the freezing of assets for human rights violations.
“duplicity with which Washington is taken for assessing the situation of human rights in Russia, has long since not surprising. Speech is a policy which already allows over 13 years kept in prison at the military base at Guantanamo Russian citizen RK Mingazowa” – said in a statement Russian Foreign Ministry. “It should be noted also that it was the US in the early twenty-first century, officially legalized and active user of medieval torture. We have not forgotten about it,” – written.
The Ministry expresses the opinion that the Magnitsky list is used by the administration of President Barack Obama “to unjustly accuse Russian official personalities.” Expanding the list, according to the Foreign Ministry is “another blow” for bilateral relations.
“The tragic fate of Russian lawyer purposes only as a small coin filthy campaign in Washington to discredit our country “, – added the Foreign Ministry. Ministry accused the United States that “systematically destroy the basis for bilateral relations, regularly disseminating false information against Russia.”
Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer fund Hermitage Capital Management (HCM), died on 16 November 2009 at the age of 37 years in prison Matrosskaja Tiszyna in Moscow. Previously, for almost a year he was being held in another Moscow prison – Butyrka. His employer and human rights defenders contend that on the day of his death he was severely beaten by prison guards.
In 2007 in HCM office conducted a search. They confiscated the documents – says the fund – used to take over companies with which he worked. Magnitsky was arrested when during the hearing indicated the Interior Ministry officers involved in the acquisition of companies.
In the opinion of experts in the field of medicine Magnitskiemu court during his stay in prison, not given proper medical attention, which resulted in the fact that there was diagnosed with chronic diseases, including diabetes and hepatitis, which suffered, and is therefore not taken treatment. Western countries have unsuccessfully demanded that the Kremlin fair explanation of all the circumstances surrounding the death of a lawyer and punish those responsible.
In April 2013 the Treasury (finance) USA announced the so-called. Magnitsky list – the list of persons subject to US sanctions for human rights violations. The list included 18 Russian officials. In addition to this list, there is disclosed a list confidential. In response, Russia has announced its list of 18 Americans who banned the entry into its territory, and also drew up a second, implicit list.
American list is a result of the adoption in 2012 by the US Congress called. Magnitsky Act. It provides for punishment ban on entry to the United States and the freezing of assets of Russian officials co-responsible for the death of a lawyer, but applies also to other officials suspected of human rights violations.
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