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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/
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
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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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
www.theguardian.com
June 9, 2025 at 6:40 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...
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
www.theguardian.com
June 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"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.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 23, 2025 at 2:03 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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May 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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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.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 9:51 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...
'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
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 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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May 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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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.
unredacted.uk
April 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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...
unredacted.uk
April 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
NEW: our Five Eyes project launches today in partnership with
@privacyint.bsky.social bringing together a large collection of previously declassified documents on Five Eyes intelligence sharing in the postwar era
unredacted.uk/projects/fiv...
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.
unredacted.uk
April 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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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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April 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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*Event announcement*

In collaboration with @paxforpeace.nl, we're thrilled to announce the launch of the Civilian Protection Monitor.

Join us at our online launch on Tuesday 15th April at 4-5.30pm CET by registering through this form:

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April 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Unredacted have launched the largest ever public data about the UK's involvement in attacks on Yemen since 2015.

As the UK's attacks on Yemen continue. This dataset is essential for public knowledge of the UK's role in war crimes.
The Yemen War Archive
Over 500 documents from a range of sources, representing the largest collection of publicly available material relating to UK involvement in the war in Yemen.
unredacted.uk
March 31, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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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.
March 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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...
Revealed: How the UK continued selling arms after Yemen massacre
We spent three years trying to find out what happened in Whitehall after the Great Hall attack in Yemen. We discovered how decisions fly with political winds, not facts on the ground - just as in Gaza
www.middleeasteye.net
March 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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...
unredacted.uk
January 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM