“Despite assurances from the American side that Mingazov’s fate would be determined ‘over the next few weeks’, this has not happened,” Dolgov said. “He has still no rights as an ‘unprivileged enemy combatant’ under the jurisdiction of the Pentagon,” he said, noting the ministry’s “serious concern” over the controversial center.
“Washington says nothing about prospects for closing it, although after taking office in 2009, Barack Obama promised to do it within a year and to move other prisoners to US territory,” the diplomat said. “Years-long detention of dozens of prisoners at Guantanamo without trial is a gross violation of human rights and democracy.”
“This became particularly obvious after details of CIA torture techniques used in its secret prisons abroad were made partially public in late December 2014,” Dolgov said, adding that inaction of authorities in closing Guantanamo “confirmed double-standards the US used in the sphere of human rights” and “negatively influenced the country’s image in the world”.
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