Russian Foreign Ministry hopes that the proceedings as part of the special prison for the CIA abroad will be carried through

MOSCOW, February 11. /Itar-Tass Gregory Sapozhnikov /. Moscow hopes that the proceedings as part of the special prison of the CIA abroad will be brought to its logical conclusion and the perpetrators punished. The statement was made in an exclusive comment Itar-Tass authorized Foreign Minister on human rights, democracy and the rule of law, Konstantin Dolgov.

According to him, in Moscow "carefully studied" presented recently the international NGO "Open Society" report "Globalization of torture." "The document is based on the extensive factual material on the activities of secret CIA prisons in foreign countries, and further highlights the scope and magnitude of a rights-based issues - said Dolgov. - This" open society "is rooted firmly supports the information at the international level the view that under of U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have been serious violations of international human rights standards, including the UN Convention against Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. "

"In this regard, it is puzzling that convicted several years ago of aiding violations of rights-based norms and standards of the Partner States U.S." anti-terrorist coalition, "not in a hurry to complete the investigation on these matters, and in some cases openly mend their obstacles," - said diplomat.

"The U.S. administration has not fulfilled its promise to close the military special prison at Guantanamo Bay, in violation of international law in legal limbo indefinitely extrajudicial and contains dozens of prisoners," - noted Dolgov.

Moscow sees' attempts to ignore the wealth of evidence on the use of sophisticated torture sensitive sites CIA secret agents of abductions of foreign nationals and illegal prolonged detention as causing serious damage to the universal rights-based values. "

"We hope that all the proceedings as part of the special prison of the CIA abroad will be brought to its logical end and the guilty will be punished, - the diplomat. - We support the efforts being made by international human rights organizations, specialized UN agencies, the European Court of Human Rights, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. "

"We continue to closely monitor the situation around this important international rights-based context of the question", - he said.