Tag Uzbekistan

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…

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…

‘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…

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…

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…