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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/

"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...

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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"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. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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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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”.' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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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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...

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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"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." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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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"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...

'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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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 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...

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ALSO NEW TODAY: in partnership with @privacyint.bsky.social, we are publishing documents from the Third Direction Challenge at the IPT, which revealed a secret government policy allowing MI5 officials to authorise their agents to commit criminal acts in the UK unredacted.uk/collections/...

Third Direction Challenge

Documents from proceedings at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) which led to the disclosure of a secret government policy allowing MI5 officials to authorise their agents to commit criminal acts...

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Just launched! The Civilian Protection Monitor - a new project by Airwars and @paxforpeace.nl measuring state policy and practice on civilian harm mitigation and response, based on analysis of open source information. View it here: civilianprotectionmonitor.org

Civilian Protection Monitor

The Civilian Protection Monitor is a framework for monitoring state policy and practice on the protection of civilians from their own military actions.

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Great initiative and what promises to be a very important resource. In respect of both Gaza and Yemen, there needs to be analytical scrutiny of the British government's complicity. And there needs to be accountability flowing from that.

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Launching today in @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social: Unredacted's Yemen War Project, the largest collection of publicly available material related to UK involvement in the war in Yemen since 2015.🧵 www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/ye...

Today the Unredacted team are at the Royal Courts of Justice, giving updates from the Independent Inquiry into (UKSF war crimes) in Afghanistan. Evidence from Alan Pughsley QPM, who has carried out a review of RMP investigations...🧵 For more on our investigation, see unredacted.uk/projects/spe...

Special Forces War Crimes

A multiyear investigation into the systematic practice of unlawful killings and detainee mistreatment by UK Special Forces units deployed to Afghanistan, and the subsequent coverup of this criminality...

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