Lydia Day
@LydiaCDay
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@Unredacted_UK / UK national security, human rights and accountability
London, England
Joined July 2017
Yesterday in the High Court, the UK's complicity in atrocity crimes in Gaza was exposed. The key points: 1/ In response to questioning, the government was forced to admit that “Israel is not committed to complying with international humanitarian law” by its own assessment
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Today, in a landmark verdict, a jury found government contractor CACI liable for the torture of Iraqi men at Abu Ghraib in 2003-04 and ordered it to pay each of the three plaintiffs $3 million in compensatory damages and $11 million in punitive damages. https://t.co/P0Vgnc17gR
ccrjustice.org
First of its kind to make it to trial, lawsuit delivers rare accountability for U.S post-9/11 tortureNovember 12, 2024, Alexandria, VA – Today, in a landmark verdict, a jury in a federal court found a
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Questions for former defence secretary Ben Wallace about a change made to a draft war crimes bill that could have shielded the SAS from prosecution. He appears at the Afghan inquiry today. Our story -
bbc.co.uk
The change had the effect of pushing war crimes allegations against the SAS outside the cut off period for bringing a prosecution under normal circumstances.
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Some thoughts from me on Owen Hatherley’s brilliant new book ‘Walking the Streets / Walking the Projects’ for @tribunemagazine, touching on the stubborn remnants of built social democracy in NYC and the intellectual origins of the YIMBY/NIMBY binary under which we now live
In the 1960s, a new ideology held that cities were best developed organically and free from central planning. In his latest book, Owen Hatherley explores how these ideas shaped New York — and what they can teach a new generation of socialists. https://t.co/j0VN4OlWKQ
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Great opportunity to work with an amazing team 👇
Only five days left to apply for a great #journojob in our investigations team https://t.co/q02yv9IUd6
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💥 In a letter to me late last week, the MoD has finally admitted that UK Special Forces were able to veto their Afghan counterparts coming by to the UK, where they could be called as witnesses in an inquiry into allegations of war crimes. This is an absolute scandal that the
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Today we launch the new and improved Open Source Munitions Portal to help the general public better understand modern conflict. This thread highlights 9 new features of the tool https://t.co/aPMW9JYL5Q
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Great article from @BlewettSam in Politico on the Afghanistan Inquiry and Johnny Mercer’s evidence — including some thoughts from me about how these allegations may have been covered up while the government pushed forward with the Overseas Operations Bill.
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EXCLUSIVE: One of the most senior special forces officers in the British army broke ranks and reported to police that SAS soldiers under his command committed war crimes by executing prisoners in Afghanistan w/ @JCalvertST and @DavidCollinsST 🧵 https://t.co/opsNy8S9D2
thetimes.com
The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.
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Gwyn Jenkins to become next National Security Advisor. @BBCPanorama have reported that Jenkins is the UKSF officer N1785, who is deeply involved in allegations of extrajudicial killing by UKSF in Afghanistan. 🧵👇 https://t.co/zZmc1MidB0
unredacted.uk
A briefing exploring contemporaneous knowledge among senior UK Special Forces officers of what appears to have been the systematic unlawful killings by SAS units in Afghanistan and the fabricated...
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Important new visual investigation from the team @airwars
In 2007, Dutch bombing decimated a residential compound in Afghanistan, killing at least 11 civilians. Our new visual investigation reconstructs the events leading up to the attack, and delves into the survivors’ 15 year fight for answers. 1/5 https://t.co/9q4plGWaPf
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After 10 years of trying, a Palestinian woman had twins. An Israeli strike killed them both
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It took 10 years and three rounds of in vitro fertilization for Rania Abu Anza to become pregnant, and only seconds for her to lose her five-month-old twins, a boy and a girl.
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Just added to our archive: a 2011 memo by a senior UKSF Officer to Jacko Page, Director Special Forces, about concerns of ‘an unofficial policy […] to kill wherever possible fighting aged males on target, regarding of the immediate threat they pose.’ 🧵 https://t.co/A5dXCH1TmN
unredacted.uk
UK Special Forces, N1785 (Commander [UKSF3]) to N1802 (Director Special Forces), 2 pages, 5 Apr 2011.
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https://t.co/KvZel2WtV8 In The Guardian: our Special Forces war crimes project aims to “provide the fullest public account to date of the UKSF operations involving suspicious killings and the extent to which senior UKSF personnel had knowledge” of the allegations.
theguardian.com
MoD conducts review but stands accused of conflict of interest while public inquiry investigates conduct of SAS in Afghanistan
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So excited that our new research unit @unredacted_uk is launching today!
🚨📢Today, we are launching Unredacted, a new research unit that investigates and documents secretive UK state and corporate practices in the context of national security. Read more about Unredacted’s work here: https://t.co/p2AiPeM3cS
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🚨📢Today, we are launching Unredacted, a new research unit that investigates and documents secretive UK state and corporate practices in the context of national security. Read more about Unredacted’s work here: https://t.co/p2AiPeM3cS
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Next week, we are launching Unredacted, a new research unit that investigates and documents secretive UK state and corporate national security practices. Stay tuned for our first project and archive of thousands of national security documents.
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Judgment al-Hawsawi v. Lithuania - complicity in CIA secret detainee programme, multiple violations https://t.co/NZ9VaeWSD3
#ECHR #CEDH #ECHRpress
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NEXT WEEK! Join us to discuss the role & impact of the global arms trade, connecting struggles & resistance, with a focus on the Ayotzinapa atrocities, 9 years on. 📌Online 📆Tuesday 19th Dec, 11AM-1PM (CST) / 5-7PM (GMT) 📑Details & Registration: https://t.co/NqTIrf4Uys
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