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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/
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.
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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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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.
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June 9, 2025 at 10:11 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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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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
A series of protocols and communications between MI5 and prosecuting authorities designed to ensure coordination in relation to information that agents have committed criminal acts. unredacted.uk/dcviewer.php...
Memorandum of Understanding: Security Service Material Relevant to Counter Terrorism Investigations and Prosecutions
Security Service et al, 10 pages, 13 May 2015
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April 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
MI5’s current (as of 2019) guidelines, dated March 2011, ‘intended to provide guidance to agent-running sections on the use of agents who participate in criminality.’ unredacted.uk/dcviewer.php...
Guidelines on the Use of Agents Who Participate in Criminality (Official Guidance) [Ver. 3]
Security Service, 4 pages, Mar 2011
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April 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This collection includes: a series of historic MI5 policy guidelines for those running agents who may engage in criminal activity, from 1995, 1997 and 2003. unredacted.uk/dcviewer.php...
Guidelines for the Security Service Use of Informants in Terrorist Related Cases
Security Service, 2 pages, 1995
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April 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM