Russia Scolds US For Human Rights Abuse

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(dailymail.co.uk) By Gareth Finighan - Russia's Foreign Ministry has attacked America's human rights record in its first report on injustice elsewhere in the world, offering examples such as the Guantanamo Bay prison and wrongful death row convictions to paint the U.S. as hypocritical for lecturing other nations on the subject of rights.

'The situation in the United States is a far cry from the ideals that Washington proclaims,' says the newly-released report.

Moscow has previously reacted angrily to the accusations of human rights breaches that the U.S. State Department has leveled at Russia in its annual reports.

The State Department has expressed concern about the violent attacks on rights activists and journalists in Russia, most of which go unpunished and has also criticised abuses in Russia's Caucasus, including extrajudicial killings, kidnappings and torture.

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