Russia says denied entry to U.S. Navy officer after rights act

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia denied entry to a U.S. former commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in retaliation for a U.S. law intended to punish Russian human rights violators, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Denisov said on Friday.

The United States passed the "Magnitsky Act", named after an anti-corruption lawyer who died in a Moscow prison in 2009, last year to bar entry for alleged Russian rights violators and freeze any assets they hold in the United States.