A Russian pilot who returned to Moscow from the United States this week as part of a prisoner swap said on Thursday he had been tortured in custody in Liberia before his extradition to America.
Konstantin Yaroshenko also alleged he had been beaten at a military base in the United States, a claim rejected by the White House.
Yaroshenko was detained in 2010 in Liberia by U.S. special forces as part of a major drug bust. U.S. authorities then convicted him for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the United States and he was serving a 20-year sentence.
