So now there’s still some time to fight it, even as the British government makes clear their policy of deporting dissidents to Uzbekistan if they don’t qualify for asylum – knowing full well they will be tortured upon their return.
The process was fast-tracked, which means evidence was ignored and defense had but a week to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Uzbekistan’
Jahongir Sidikov’s deportation postponed
Jahongir Sidikov deportation hearing tomorrow
Britain has denied political asylum to Uzbek dissident Jahongir Sidikov. If he’s sent back, he will be tortured. Immersion of limbs in boiling water is a favored technique. His hearing is tomorrow.
Uzbekistan has been used by the US and Britain for extraordinary rendition. Political prisoners are sent there to be tortured, as documented in former [...]
Britain to send dissident back to Uzbekistan
Jahongir Sidikov is a member of an opposition party in Uzbekistan. He has been denied political asylum in Britain and may soon be sent back where he will almost certainly face hideous torture. British authorities know this because they’ve sent suspected terrorists there to be tortured for information. Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan who was [...]
Weasel words from the Torturer-in-chief
Bush admits CIA had secret prisons
But he says no one was tortured. As always, one needs to cut through the fog of neocon lies and evasions to get to the truth. First off, Bush says the hideous treatment of detainees at Guantanamo isn’t torture because he defines torture as something only evildoers do. As [...]
Craig Murray speaks
Murray was the British ambassador to Uzbekistan who was forced out of his job for exposing the US/British practice of sending politicial prisoners to Uzbekistan to be tortured.
From the intro to the interview
First of all, if you’ve read the accounts, you know that the Uzbek government stands accused of boiling dissidents to death, raping them [...]
The Net helps Craig Murray
From BlairWatch
Another message from Craig Murray:
“The government’s deadline has passed, the documents are still on the website and we await the court injunction…
Thank you for all your support.
Craig”
Foreign Office legal action “unlikely to succeed“, The Guardian
The government is threatening to sue former ambassador Craig Murray for breach of copyright if he does not remove from [...]
Craig Murray threatened with legal action
The British authorities are threatening legal action against Craig Murray due to his new book, Murder in Samarkland, which details the US/British policy of sending prisoners to Uzbekistan to be tortured.
They blocked him from putting some of his documenting evidence into the book so he put them online. Now they want those gone too based [...]
‘Murder in Samarkland’ published
As Britain’s outspoken Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, Craig Murray helped expose vicious human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of Islam Karimov. He is now a prominent critic of Western policy in the region.
He was fired for his trouble, after exposing the US/British policy of sending prisoners there to be tortured, [...]
Craig Murray on the title of his book
Six weeks after Craig Murray started his job as British ambassador to Uzbekistan in 2002, a packet of photos landed on his desk. Inside were pictures a mother had taken of her son’s mutilated corpse. The young man, a political prisoner accused of having ties to radical Islam, had been tortured, beaten and immersed in [...]
Uzbek torture prison
Uzbek court jails opposition activist for 10 years
With yet again no effective protest from the international community, another major leader of the Uzbek democratic opposition is packed off to torture camp. Nodira is a personal friend of mine and I am deeply sad.
She is not, doubtless, a personal friend of my replacement. I was sacked [...]
Repression disguised as fighting terrorism
Craig Murray in the UK breaks an important story
Citing the “Prevention of Terrorism” act, British Police have arrested and interrogated three of the stars of the award-winning film “The Road to Guantanamo”, together with the three ex-Guantanomo detainees on whose story the film is based.
“The Road to Guantanamo” traces the true story of Shafiq Rasul, [...]
Brit ‘book burning’
The British Government is trying to stop Craig Murray from printing his book.
He’s doing it anyway.
Support him.
Murray is the fromer British ambassador to Uzbekistan who resigned in protest of the US/British policy of sending prisoners there to be tortured.
BlairWatch has more
“Book Burning: Craig Murray to defy Foreign Office Threats, and publish ‘Murder in Samarkand’”
Murder in Samarkand
Craig Murray’s new book is available for pre-order on Amazon UK.
Murder in Samarkand: A British Ambassador’s Controversial Defiance of a Tyrannical Regime Within the War on Terror
From the Amazon synopsis.
Craig Murray was the United Kingdom’s Ambassador to Uzbekistan until he was removed from his post in October 2004 after exposing appalling human rights abuses by [...]
Torture flights
What No 10 knew and tried to cover up
Leaked memo reveals strategy to deny knowledge of detention centres
The government is secretly trying to stifle attempts by MPs to find out what it knows about CIA "torture flights" and privately admits that people captured by British forces could have been sent illegally to interrogation centres, the [...]
Will they be teaching advanced torture?
India to train Uzbek army with British "observers" present
This is from Craig Murray, who knows quite a lot about Uzbekistan. He was the former British Ambassador to that country who was forced out of his job for protesting the US/British policy of sending prisoners there to be tortured for information (immersion in boiling water is [...]
