Russia has published its own list of US officials banned from Russia in response to the US’s list of Russian officials facing visa and financial sanctions under the Magnitsky Act, Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on its website on Saturday. “We would like to draw particular information to the fact that, unlike the American list compiled arbitrarily, our list features primarily those implicated in torture and the indefinite detention of prisoners in the [US] Guantanamo prison camp, as well as those involved in the abduction and removal to other countries of Rus

Guards at the Guantanamo Bay prison fired non-lethal shots to quell prisoner unrest Saturday as they relocated inmates into individual cells, US military officials said. Officials at the US-run prison met with resistance from some inmates as they moved before dawn to relocate inmates from communal housing into individual cells. "Some detainees resisted with improvised weapons, and in response, four less-than-lethal rounds were fired," according to a statement from Robert Durand, a spokesman with Joint Task Force Guantanamo, which runs the prison.

Russia on Saturday released a list of 18 blacklisted US officials, in retaliation for Washington's blackballing of 16 Russians to protest the death of jailed whistleblowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. The US blacklist mainly includes officials involved in the arrest and detention of Magnitsky, while the Russian list includes former US officials involved in War on Terror detention policies. The following is a brief profile of those targeted by the blacklists. -- AMERICANS --

Rights activists across the United States held a series of protests on Thursday demanding the closure of Guantanamo Bay as a hunger-strike at the jail entered a third month. In a day of action aimed at drawing attention to the plight of prisoners at the facility, demonstrators -- many wearing orange jumpsuits famously worn by Guantanamo inmates -- demanded US President Barack Obama close the jail. The protests came as a group of 25 rights organizations wrote an open letter to the US leader.