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Unredacted is a research unit @UniWestminster that investigates and documents secretive UK state and corporate practices in the context of national security.

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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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Drone Wars
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Great to spend the day with colleagues from across peace movement, sharing on research and discussing decline in transparency and how we can challenge it. Grateful to Quakers for hosting.
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"Foreign Office released apparently misleading information about call in which then foreign secretary David Cameron allegedly threatened ICC chief prosecutor" Revealed in response to a Freedom of Information request filed by Unredacted @Imran_posts https://t.co/ZwB0NWagEi
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Foreign Office released apparently misleading information about call in which then foreign secretary David Cameron allegedly threatened ICC chief prosecutor
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@airwars
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Secrecy around UK military civilian harm ‘risks undermining public confidence’ @guardian reporting on the conclusion of Airwars' freedom of information tribunal against the Ministry of Defence https://t.co/2lcfXUKzFU
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theguardian.com
Tribunal ruling follows Airwars investigation into Britain’s conduct in bombing campaign against IS in Syria and Iraq
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"The British government’s secrecy around how it tracks civilian deaths in UK military campaigns risks undermining public confidence in the process, a tribunal has found." Coverage of @airwars landmark tribunal case. https://t.co/pzSR7IZPAe
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theguardian.com
Tribunal ruling follows Airwars investigation into Britain’s conduct in bombing campaign against IS in Syria and Iraq
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@unredacted_uk
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Unredacted's Sam Raphael 'said it was a “startling” admission that went further than previous official statements because it “appeared to explicitly concede for the first time that UK agencies were involved in the CIA’s detention programme”.' https://t.co/ok5M1g2swX
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theguardian.com
Government acknowledges UK involvement in detention operations for first time in GuantĂĄnamo inmates case
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@unredacted_uk
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@renditionprjct An overall archive of documents relating to the use of rendition, secret detention and torture by US and UK intelligence agencies in the ‘War on Terror’ and beyond, the world’s largest public collection. https://t.co/lA089p65ut
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unredacted.uk
The world’s largest public collection of documents relating to the use of rendition, secret detention and torture by US and UK intelligence agencies in the ‘war on terror’ and beyond.
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@renditionprjct A collection of air traffic control records, billing documents and other forms of flight data, collected by The Rendition Project during its investigation into the CIA torture programme. https://t.co/AdWDVVlDdC
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unredacted.uk
A collection of air traffic control records, billing documents and other forms of flight data, collected by The Rendition Project during its investigation into the CIA torture programme.
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@renditionprjct A growing collection of documents from within the CIA torture programme, including memos, internal reports and cables from a number of black sites where detainees were held outside the law and subjected to systematic torture https://t.co/AzeR2x4HAP
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unredacted.uk
A growing collection of documents from within the CIA torture programme, including memos, internal reports and cables from a number of secret prisons (black sites) where detainees were held outside...
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@renditionprjct Two briefings on specific cases of alleged UK complicity in torture: al-Hawsawi and al-Nashiri. Both of these cases will be heard at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal this week in landmark hearings. https://t.co/2gYx3uJCrm
unredacted.uk
Mustafa al-Hawsawi is a Saudi national arbitrarily detained at GuantĂĄnamo Bay. Between 2003-2006 he was held in the CIA torture programme, detained and tortured in secret prisons around the world....
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Building on previous work with @renditionprjct, this project includes: a briefing on how the UK was complicit in torture by participating in interrogations, providing intelligence, receiving intelligence obtained through torture and logistical support. https://t.co/08nwX3U5eS
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Our investigation has established beyond reasonable doubt that Britain has been deeply and directly involved in the rendition, secret detention and torture of prisoners in the ‘war on terror’. This...
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Launched today in The Guardian: Unredacted’s Torture in the War on Terror project, building the most comprehensive set of documents and analysis of secret detention and torture by the US + UK and other allies' intelligence agencies. https://t.co/7b3YJ5rXQA
theguardian.com
Cases filed by two GuantĂĄnamo Bay prisoners allege MI5 and MI6 were complicit in their mistreatment
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"A UK Special Forces officer personally rejected 1,585 resettlement applications from Afghans [...] The MoD told the court that the officer may have been connected to the ongoing inquiry into alleged war crimes committed by the SAS."
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Documents shown to court by MoD show the officer rejected every application referred to him in the summer of 2023.
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New from the Inquiry into UK Special Forces extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan: a senior officer is refusing to give evidence. N1141 was the Officer Commanding of one of the sub-units at the centre of these allegations. https://t.co/mCEeRa2TxV
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"They handcuffed a young boy and shot him" "Killing of detainees "became routine"" New deeply concerning allegations in reports by BBC Panorama cover both Iraq and Afghanistan and stretch over a decade. https://t.co/cZe0YoqCXE
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bbc.co.uk
Veterans who served with the SAS and SBS give BBC Panorama eyewitness accounts of alleged executions.
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@thekhrc
KHRC
11 months
Event alert🚨: British tech, state surveillance and repression in Kenya On May 12, in London, we will engage in a crucial conversation about how British-manufactured surveillance technology is facilitating state repression and eroding human rights in Kenya. The event will last
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@_liz_brown
Liz Brown
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Very proud to share the results of my collaboration with @unredacted_uk - a fully searchable online archive of over 1,300 documents relating to alleged British war crimes in Iraq, and the accountability processes which followed.
@unredacted_uk
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LAUNCHED TODAY War Crimes in Iraq – a new project by Unredacted and @_liz_brown brings together 1000+ documents related to allegations of British war crimes, particularly unlawful killings and detainee abuse, during the invasion and occupation of Iraq https://t.co/UVxANVzahK
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@_liz_brown This is the first time that this material has been gathered in one place and is now fully searchable and downloadable. See all the documents in our extensive project archive here 👇 https://t.co/gTYr8GcYI9
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Hundreds of documents relating to allegations of British war crimes, particularly unlawful killings and detainee abuse, during the invasion and occupation of Iraq (Operation Telic, 2003-2011).  
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@_liz_brown Hundreds of documents gathered in the Baha Mousa Inquiry, including all final reports, witness statements, transcripts, and submissions. https://t.co/zEkSzCIzrS
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unredacted.uk
Documents relating to the public inquiry established to investigate the torture and death of Baha Mousa by British troops in Basra, September 2003.
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@_liz_brown Hundreds of documents from the ongoing Iraq Fatalities Investigations, including all witness statements, final reports, and evidence submitted in each case. https://t.co/IJAM1yvtI1
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Documents relating to the Iraq Fatality Investigations (IFI), a judicial inquiry into alleged unlawful killings in Iraq by British forces.  
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