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Lydia Day
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@unredacteduk.bsky.social / UK national security, human rights and accountability
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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
www.theguardian.com
June 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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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
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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.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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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...
unredacted.uk
May 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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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
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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...
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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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