The Russian government, in a statement posted on the Foreign Ministry’s website, said the report provided “confirmation of gross, systemic human rights violations by the American authorities.”
The statement, issued by Konstantin Dolgov, the ministry’s commissioner for human rights, democracy and the rule of law, called the disclosures in the report “shocking” and complained that only the executive summary had been released, while the bulk “remains classified, and the American authorities still do not wish to disclose it.”
“We are urging the human rights community and responsible international organizations and structures to seek from Washington the disclosure of the full spectrum of information about human rights abuses committed in the framework of this ‘global war on terror’ and to bring those guilty to justice,” Mr. Dolgov said in the statement.
Russia also called for an investigation into the role of other governments that allowed the C.I.A. to operate secret prisons on their soil, saying they appeared to be complicit in the “crimes” detailed in the report.
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