Craig Murray

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Sun, 02/03/2025 - 15:40

As the British state harasses and arrests a growing number of activists and dissident journalists, including the author of this piece, UN rapporteurs delivered a forceful letter of protest to London condemning its abuse of counter-terror legislation. In December 2024, a quartet of UN rapporteurs focused on “peaceful assembly and of association” and the “right to privacy” delivered a strongly-worded letter to the British government. Expressing grave concerns about the potential “misapplication of counter-terrorism laws” to arrest, detain, interrogate and […]

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Sat, 28/10/2023 - 02:18

As the West Asian powderkeg inches closer to disaster over Israel's ongoing slaughter in Gaza, Craig Murray dissects the various factors at play that could push the region over the precipice.

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Tue, 17/10/2023 - 17:33

The former diplomat’s detention is just the latest example of British terror laws being used to harass and intimidate dissidents, while brazenly prying into their private affairs. On the morning of October 16, counter-terror police in Glasgow Airport detained journalist, whistleblower, human rights campaigner, and former British diplomat Craig Murray upon his return from Iceland. After grilling him intensively about his political beliefs, officers seized Murray’s phone and laptop.  Murray, a proud Scottish nationalist, flew back to Glasgow after several […]

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Sun, 29/01/2023 - 10:49
Today’s event in London calling for the release of wrongly-jailed Wikileaks journalist Julian Assange was a well-attended success, featuring journalists Jonathan Cook, Stefania Maurizi and Craig Murray, as well as contributions from others. If you missed it, don’t worry – it can be viewed in full below, from the live-stream to Facebook: The event’s YouTube […]
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Fri, 27/01/2023 - 10:52
Update: former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed he will attend this event, shortly after his return from Washington DC for the pro-Assange ‘Belmarsh Tribunal’ event. Skwawkbox will be live-streaming ‘Secret Power, Media Freedom and Democracy’ on Saturday 28 January from 4pm, featuring Craig Murray, Stefania Maurizi, Jonathan Cook and Iain Overton and chaired by […]