The husband of the chief magistrate overseeing Julian Assange’s extradition case was closely associated with a lobby group publicly criticising the WikiLeaks founder around the time his wife was ruling against Assange, it can be revealed.
MATT KENNARD
UK government refuses to release information about Assange judge who has 96% extradition record
by MATT KENNARD | 31 July 2020
TAGGED: Assange
The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Justice is blocking the release of basic information about the judge who is to rule on Julian Assange’s extradition to the US in what appears to be an irregular application of the Freedom of Information Act, it can be revealed.
Revealed: MI5 and MI6 are training senior spies from Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt
by MATT KENNARD | 27 July 2020
TAGGED: Egypt, MI5, MI6, Saudi Arabia, UAE
Britain’s intelligence agencies are teaching the next generation of spymasters from some of the world’s most repressive dictatorships, it can be revealed for the first time.
The UK has approved over £200 million worth of exports with potential military use to Russia since the Salisbury poisonings
by MATT KENNARD | 23 July 2020
TAGGED: Russia, Ukraine
In the two years since a British citizen died following a chemical attack by Russian military intelligence officers in southern England, the UK government has licenced £232-million worth of controlled equipment to Russia, Declassified UK has found.
For Sama’a: As Britain resumed arms sales to Saudi Arabia, a deadly airstrike in Yemen
by MATT KENNARD | 20 July 2020
TAGGED: Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Eyewitnesses in Yemen tell Declassified UK’s reporter on the ground about the aftermath of an airstrike that killed a young girl and her grandmother.
Revealed: UK Home Office paid £80,000 to a lobby group which has funded Conservative MPs
by MATT KENNARD | 14 July 2020
The Conservative government gave more than £80,000 to a right-wing lobby group which has paid thousands of pounds in benefits to Priti Patel, now home secretary, and Michael Gove, now cabinet office minister, it can be revealed.
REVEALED: Veterans of the UK military’s cyber warfare unit are teaching school children how to launch cyber attacks
by MATT KENNARD | 4 June 2020
TAGGED: GCHQ
GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence agency, is enabling a company set up by the former commander of its top-secret cyber warfare unit to enter dozens of British schools, where it is teaching children how to spy on others, to hack, and launch “brute force” cyber attacks.
REVEALED: Harry Potter, British spies, and the arms corporations penetrating UK schools
by MATT KENNARD | 3 June 2020
TAGGED: GCHQ
GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence agency, is secretively promoting arms companies involved in war crimes to British school children, apparently without the informed consent of parents, it can be revealed.
REVEALED: The UK’s largest intelligence agency is infiltrating British schools
by MATT KENNARD | 2 June 2020
TAGGED: GCHQ
GCHQ, Britain’s listening post which has conducted unlawful mass surveillance and offensive cyber operations, is now running a secretive programme in at least 40 UK schools which gives it access to children as young as four.
Exclusive: UK military and arms companies produce more carbon emissions than 60 individual countries
by MATT KENNARD | 19 May 2020
TAGGED: Environment, military
The greenhouse gas emissions produced by the UK military and its supply chain are up to 11 times higher than admitted by the Ministry of Defence, which has produced a ‘pattern of flawed reporting’ on its environmental impacts, new research carried out for Declassified UK has found.