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The United States Obama administration won’t be able to throw the torture issue under the table, as the US Senate report on the CIA’s detention and interrogation program has sparked a global publi

The United States Obama administration won’t be able to throw the torture issue under the table, as the US Senate report on the CIA’s detention and interrogation program has sparked a global public outcry

“It’s to be continued. If you wish, this report is to be continued against the will of those who would like to hush it down,” , the Russian Foreign Ministry’s human rights ombudsman Konstantin Dolgov told the media.

The Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture following 9/11 will be “discussed in the international forum, including, hopefully, in the UN Council of Human Rights and in some other international formats,” he added.

The ombudsman believes that “very significant” public interest towards the document is explained by the fact that it describes not only breaches of human rights, but violations of the “principle of supremacy of law, the rule of law.”

“It’s high time to bring those responsible for tortures to justice. But, unfortunately, the Obama administration reaffirmed its longstanding position that nobody will be punished,” he said.

Dolgov has called Washington’s stance “shameful,” stressing that it “isn’t only criticized by human rights defenders around the world, but…by a significant portion of the American society and the American establishment.”

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