Jac St John
@jacstjohn.bsky.social
Lecturer @ University of Westminster / Senior Researcher @unredacteduk.bsky.social. Interested in histories of policing, counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, state violence and resistance. FOI busybody and deteriorating basketball player.
Great to see the launch of our project on torture in the WoT in time for the two IPT cases this week on UK complicity - check it out 👇https://bsky.app/profile/unredacteduk.bsky.social/post/3lr655sjjhs2c
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...
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 5:42 PM
Great to see the launch of our project on torture in the WoT in time for the two IPT cases this week on UK complicity - check it out 👇https://bsky.app/profile/unredacteduk.bsky.social/post/3lr655sjjhs2c
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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...
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
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...
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Very proud to share the results of my collaboration with
@unredacteduk.bsky.social - a fully searchable online archive of over 1,300 documents relating to alleged British war crimes in Iraq, and the accountability processes which followed.
@unredacteduk.bsky.social - a fully searchable online archive of over 1,300 documents relating to alleged British war crimes in Iraq, and the accountability processes which followed.
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...
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 4:14 PM
Very proud to share the results of my collaboration with
@unredacteduk.bsky.social - a fully searchable online archive of over 1,300 documents relating to alleged British war crimes in Iraq, and the accountability processes which followed.
@unredacteduk.bsky.social - a fully searchable online archive of over 1,300 documents relating to alleged British war crimes in Iraq, and the accountability processes which followed.
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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 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...
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: 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...
@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
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...
@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...
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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...
unredacted.uk
April 28, 2025 at 10:54 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/...
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The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.
Kemi Badenoch this morning: "A country cannot be successful if its people and intellectual elite don’t believe in it. This means dealing with the poisoning of minds through higher education."
February 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.
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UCU Westminster notes with dismay that two senior professors from the University of Westminster delivered keynote addresses to a conference at Tel Aviv University last November.
Read out full statement on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DGK3ZMStqYU/
or here: westminsterucu.craft.me/YTKHiJYOa8r0OG
Read out full statement on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DGK3ZMStqYU/
or here: westminsterucu.craft.me/YTKHiJYOa8r0OG
February 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
UCU Westminster notes with dismay that two senior professors from the University of Westminster delivered keynote addresses to a conference at Tel Aviv University last November.
Read out full statement on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DGK3ZMStqYU/
or here: westminsterucu.craft.me/YTKHiJYOa8r0OG
Read out full statement on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DGK3ZMStqYU/
or here: westminsterucu.craft.me/YTKHiJYOa8r0OG
Tweeting this morning from the RCJ. Give Unredacted a follow to learn more about our work on UKSF war crimes in Afghanistan.
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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...
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 12:29 PM
Tweeting this morning from the RCJ. Give Unredacted a follow to learn more about our work on UKSF war crimes in Afghanistan.
bsky.app/profile/unre...
bsky.app/profile/unre...