NEXT WEEK! Join us to discuss the role & impact of the global arms trade, connecting struggles & resistance, with a focus on the Ayotzinapa atrocities, 9 years on. 📌Online 📆Tuesday 19th Dec, 11AM-1PM (CST) / 5-7PM (GMT) 📑Details & Registration: shorturl.at/giBDU

Judgment al-Hawsawi v. Lithuania - complicity in CIA secret detainee programme, multiple violations hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion… #ECHR #CEDH #ECHRpress

Next week, we are launching Unredacted, a new research unit that investigates and documents secretive UK state and corporate national security practices. Stay tuned for our first project and archive of thousands of national security documents.

🚨📢Today, we are launching Unredacted, a new research unit that investigates and documents secretive UK state and corporate practices in the context of national security. Read more about Unredacted’s work here: unredacted.uk

So excited that our new research unit UNREDACTED is launching today!

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/f… In The Guardian: our Special Forces war crimes project aims to “provide the fullest public account to date of the UKSF operations involving suspicious killings and the extent to which senior UKSF personnel had knowledge” of the allegations.

Just added to our archive: a 2011 memo by a senior UKSF Officer to Jacko Page, Director Special Forces, about concerns of ‘an unofficial policy […] to kill wherever possible fighting aged males on target, regarding of the immediate threat they pose.’ 🧵 unredacted.uk/dcviewer.php?d…

Important new visual investigation from the team Airwars

Gwyn Jenkins to become next National Security Advisor. BBC Panorama have reported that Jenkins is the UKSF officer N1785, who is deeply involved in allegations of extrajudicial killing by UKSF in Afghanistan. 🧵👇 unredacted.uk/briefings/uksf…

Andreas Malm: Of course we can. Why not?

EXCLUSIVE: One of the most senior special forces officers in the British army broke ranks and reported to police that SAS soldiers under his command committed war crimes by executing prisoners in Afghanistan w/ Jonathan Calvert and @DavidCollinsST 🧵 thetimes.co.uk/article/a66bc8…

Great article from Sam Blewett in Politico on the Afghanistan Inquiry and Johnny Mercer’s evidence — including some thoughts from me about how these allegations may have been covered up while the government pushed forward with the Overseas Operations Bill.

Today we launch the new and improved Open Source Munitions Portal to help the general public better understand modern conflict. This thread highlights 9 new features of the tool osmp.airwars.org

💥 In a letter to me late last week, the MoD has finally admitted that UK Special Forces were able to veto their Afghan counterparts coming by to the UK, where they could be called as witnesses in an inquiry into allegations of war crimes. This is an absolute scandal that the

Great opportunity to work with an amazing team 👇

Some thoughts from me on Owen Hatherley’s brilliant new book ‘Walking the Streets / Walking the Projects’ for Tribune, touching on the stubborn remnants of built social democracy in NYC and the intellectual origins of the YIMBY/NIMBY binary under which we now live

Questions for former defence secretary Ben Wallace about a change made to a draft war crimes bill that could have shielded the SAS from prosecution. He appears at the Afghan inquiry today. Our story - bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Today, in a landmark verdict, a jury found government contractor CACI liable for the torture of Iraqi men at Abu Ghraib in 2003-04 and ordered it to pay each of the three plaintiffs $3 million in compensatory damages and $11 million in punitive damages. ccrjustice.org/home/press-cen…

Yesterday in the High Court, the UK's complicity in atrocity crimes in Gaza was exposed. The key points: 1/ In response to questioning, the government was forced to admit that “Israel is not committed to complying with international humanitarian law” by its own assessment