“Shackles . . . Middle Ages . . . Torture ” — Vladimir Putin’s response to US criticism (December)
Vladimir Putin goes on offensive against US
Tom Parfitt, Telegraph | 20 December 2012
. . . “Why does one country consider itself entitled to spread its jurisdiction to the entire world?” he said in his characteristic rapid-fire delivery.
“Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo – people are kept in prison for years without being charged, they walk around in shackles like in the Middle Ages.
“They have legalised torture inside their own country. . . . ”