Unredacted
@unredacteduk.bsky.social
Unredacted is a research unit at the University of Westminster that investigates and documents secretive UK state and corporate practices in the context of national security. Visit https://unredacted.uk/
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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. Huge thanks to @peace-campaigns.quaker.org.uk for hosting us!
January 28, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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. Huge thanks to @peace-campaigns.quaker.org.uk for hosting us!
"Foreign Office released apparently misleading information about call in which then foreign secretary David Cameron allegedly threatened ICC chief prosecutor"
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Exclusive: UK didn't disclose second Tory peer on Cameron-Karim Khan 'threat' call
Foreign Office released apparently misleading information about call in which then foreign secretary David Cameron allegedly threatened ICC chief prosecutor
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January 28, 2026 at 5:13 PM
"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 www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi...
Revealed in response to a Freedom of Information request filed by Unredacted www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi...
"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.bsky.social landmark tribunal case.
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Coverage of @airwars.bsky.social landmark tribunal case.
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Secrecy around UK military civilian harm ‘risks undermining public confidence’
Tribunal ruling follows Airwars investigation into Britain’s conduct in bombing campaign against IS in Syria and Iraq
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January 20, 2026 at 9:50 AM
"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.bsky.social landmark tribunal case.
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Coverage of @airwars.bsky.social landmark tribunal case.
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"Two former heads of all UK Special Forces suppressed evidence of possible SAS war crimes, a former high-ranking officer has told a public inquiry in closed evidence sessions."
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Special Forces heads suppressed SAS war crime evidence, inquiry hears
An officer tells the Independent Inquiry relating to Afghanistan UK Special Forces leadership was
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December 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"Two former heads of all UK Special Forces suppressed evidence of possible SAS war crimes, a former high-ranking officer has told a public inquiry in closed evidence sessions."
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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”.'
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UK spy agencies too slow to realise CIA was mistreating prisoners after 9/11, government admits
Government acknowledges UK involvement in detention operations for first time in Guantánamo inmates case
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June 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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”.'
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'The cases, filed by two prisoners held at the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, will be heard across a rare four-day trial at the investigatory powers tribunal' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Claims that UK spy agencies aided CIA torture after 9/11 to be heard in rare trial
Cases filed by two Guantánamo Bay prisoners allege MI5 and MI6 were complicit in their mistreatment
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June 9, 2025 at 6:40 AM
'The cases, filed by two prisoners held at the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, will be heard across a rare four-day trial at the investigatory powers tribunal' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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.
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The Torture Archive
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.
unredacted.uk
June 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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.
unredacted.uk/project-arch...
unredacted.uk/project-arch...
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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CIA Flight Data
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.
unredacted.uk
June 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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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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.
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The CIA Torture Documents
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 th...
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June 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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.
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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.
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UK Complicity and the Torture of Mustafa al-Hawsawi
Mustafa al-Hawsawi is a Saudi national arbitrarily detained at Guantánamo Bay. Between 2003-2006 he was held in the CIA torture programme, detained and tortured in secret prisons around the world. The...
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June 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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.
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Building on our previous work with The Rendition Project, 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.
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UK Torture in the War on Terror
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 br...
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June 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Building on our previous work with The Rendition Project, 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.
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Launched today in The Guardian with @harryfoxdavies.bsky.social: 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 allies' intelligence agencies.
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Claims that UK spy agencies aided CIA torture after 9/11 to be heard in rare trial
Cases filed by two Guantánamo Bay prisoners allege MI5 and MI6 were complicit in their mistreatment
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June 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Launched today in The Guardian with @harryfoxdavies.bsky.social: 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 allies' intelligence agencies.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
"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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One Special Forces officer blocked 1,585 Afghans from settling in UK
Documents shown to court by MoD show the officer rejected every application referred to him in the summer of 2023.
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May 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"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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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.
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May 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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.
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Deeply disturbing and demands accountability, not cover ups. “Giving their accounts publicly for the first time, the veterans described seeing members of the SAS murder unarmed people in their sleep and execute handcuffed detainees, including children.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Children handcuffed and shot' - ex-UK Special Forces break silence on war crime claims
Veterans who served with the SAS and SBS give BBC Panorama eyewitness accounts of alleged executions.
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May 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Deeply disturbing and demands accountability, not cover ups. “Giving their accounts publicly for the first time, the veterans described seeing members of the SAS murder unarmed people in their sleep and execute handcuffed detainees, including children.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Veterans described seeing members of the SAS murder unarmed people in their sleep and execute handcuffed detainees, including children."
New deeply concerning allegations in reports by BBC Panorama cover both Iraq and Afghanistan and stretch over a decade.
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New deeply concerning allegations in reports by BBC Panorama cover both Iraq and Afghanistan and stretch over a decade.
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'Children handcuffed and shot' - ex-UK Special Forces break silence on war crime claims
Veterans who served with the SAS and SBS give BBC Panorama eyewitness accounts of alleged executions.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"Veterans described seeing members of the SAS murder unarmed people in their sleep and execute handcuffed detainees, including children."
New deeply concerning allegations in reports by BBC Panorama cover both Iraq and Afghanistan and stretch over a decade.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New deeply concerning allegations in reports by BBC Panorama cover both Iraq and Afghanistan and stretch over a decade.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is the first time that this material has been gathered in one place and is now fully searchable and downloaded. See all the documents in our extensive project archive here 👇https://unredacted.uk/project-archives/war-crimes-iraq/
The Iraq War Crimes Archive
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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May 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is the first time that this material has been gathered in one place and is now fully searchable and downloaded. See all the documents in our extensive project archive here 👇https://unredacted.uk/project-archives/war-crimes-iraq/
Hundreds of documents gathered in the Baha Mousa Inquiry, including all final reports, witness statements, transcripts, and submissions.
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The Baha Mousa Inquiry
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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May 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hundreds of documents gathered in the Baha Mousa Inquiry, including all final reports, witness statements, transcripts, and submissions.
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Hundreds of documents from the ongoing Iraq Fatalities Investigations, including all witness statements, final reports, and evidence submitted in each case.
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Iraq Fatality Investigations
Documents relating to the Iraq Fatality Investigations (IFI), a judicial inquiry into alleged unlawful killings in Iraq by British forces.
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May 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hundreds of documents from the ongoing Iraq Fatalities Investigations, including all witness statements, final reports, and evidence submitted in each case.
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This project includes: our Iraq litigation collection of skeleton arguments, judgements, charge sheets, and orders from court cases of alleged unlawful killings and detainee mistreatment in Iraq
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Iraq Litigation
Documents relating to legal cases arising from the UK’s war in Iraq.
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May 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This project includes: our Iraq litigation collection of skeleton arguments, judgements, charge sheets, and orders from court cases of alleged unlawful killings and detainee mistreatment in Iraq
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unredacted.uk/collections/...
LAUNCHED TODAY
War Crimes in Iraq – a new project by Unredacted and @liz-brown.bsky.social brings together 1000+ documents related to allegations of British war crimes, particularly unlawful killings and detainee abuse, during the invasion and occupation of Iraq
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War Crimes in Iraq – a new project by Unredacted and @liz-brown.bsky.social brings together 1000+ documents related to allegations of British war crimes, particularly unlawful killings and detainee abuse, during the invasion and occupation of Iraq
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War Crimes in Iraq
A project examining the thousands of allegations of detainee mistreatment and unlawful killing against British forces during Operation Telic, the UK’s military deployment during the invasion and occup...
unredacted.uk
May 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
LAUNCHED TODAY
War Crimes in Iraq – a new project by Unredacted and @liz-brown.bsky.social brings together 1000+ documents related to allegations of British war crimes, particularly unlawful killings and detainee abuse, during the invasion and occupation of Iraq
unredacted.uk/projects/war...
War Crimes in Iraq – a new project by Unredacted and @liz-brown.bsky.social brings together 1000+ documents related to allegations of British war crimes, particularly unlawful killings and detainee abuse, during the invasion and occupation of Iraq
unredacted.uk/projects/war...
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NEW: @unredacteduk.bsky.social Five Eyes project brings together a large collection of previously declassified documents on the Five Eyes intelligence sharing in the postwar era 👀
Five Eyes Intelligence Sharing
A project exploring the evolution of the UKUSA Agreement, a broad intelligence sharing framework which underpins the Five Eyes alliance between the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
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April 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
NEW: @unredacteduk.bsky.social Five Eyes project brings together a large collection of previously declassified documents on the Five Eyes intelligence sharing in the postwar era 👀
For the broader context of these documents, read Professor Sam Raphael’s briefing here: unredacted.uk/briefings/mi...
MI5 and the Authorisation of Informants’ Participation in Criminality
Documents revealing the long history of MI5 'authorising' their informants to commit crime, with official guidance providing no meaningful limits on the types of crime authorised, or on the scale of i...
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April 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
For the broader context of these documents, read Professor Sam Raphael’s briefing here: unredacted.uk/briefings/mi...
Extracts from confidential annexes to the Intelligence Services Commissioner’s annual reports for each year 2012-16
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Annual Report 2016: Confidential Annex [Extract]
Intelligence Services Commissioner, 10 pages, Jul 2017
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April 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Extracts from confidential annexes to the Intelligence Services Commissioner’s annual reports for each year 2012-16
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Letters from then Prime Minister David Cameron to the Intelligence Services Commissioner, requesting oversight of MI5’s policy on agent participation in criminality
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Letter: Issuance of Two Directions
Prime Minister, David Cameron to Mark Waller (IS Commissioner), 2 pages, 27 Nov 2014
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April 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Letters from then Prime Minister David Cameron to the Intelligence Services Commissioner, requesting oversight of MI5’s policy on agent participation in criminality
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