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.
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Thousands of historic British government files censored after ‘independent’ watchdog approves over 99% of secrecy requests
by PHIL MILLER | 25 July 2020
TAGGED: BAE Systems, GCHQ, MI5, Saudi Arabia
British diplomatic files about Saudi Arabia and mercenaries are among over 6,000 documents recently censored from the National Archives – by an ‘independent’ oversight panel containing former spies and government officials.
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: How the British military supplies ‘mercenary’ forces to a Gulf dictatorship
by PHIL MILLER | 20 July 2020
TAGGED: Oman
Britain has 91 troops ‘on loan’ to Oman, where serving UK military pilots are flying Omani fighter jets, helicopters and military transport planes under a secretive scheme designed to bolster the repressive monarchy, Declassified UK can reveal.
Children killed in Yemen by Saudi-led airstrikes days before and after UK arms sales resume
by PHIL MILLER | 15 July 2020
TAGGED: Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Airstrikes in Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition killed eight children shortly before and after the UK government claimed there was ‘not a clear risk’ of British weapons being used for war crimes, Declassified has found.
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.
‘Paralysing a nation’: Evidence emerges of Royal Navy’s complicity in Saudi-led sea blockade of Yemen
by PHIL MILLER | 7 July 2020
TAGGED: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen
The Saudi-led coalition has received British training on naval tactics that could be used for blockading Yemen, an embargo which UN experts have described as ‘unlawful’. Amnesty International says the new information is ‘deeply concerning’.
Hundreds of Saudi and Gulf military personnel trained in Britain as Yemen war continues
by PHIL MILLER | 3 July 2020
New data shows Britain’s Royal Air Force trained Saudi personnel in 2019 on fighter jets used to bomb civilians in Yemen – a country on the brink of famine – while UK soldiers coached other forces in the Saudi-led coalition at nearly a dozen army bases in Britain.
Exclusive: British army sent unqualified investigators to Iraq where troops ‘got away with murder’, veterans say
by MICHAEL SELBY-GREEN | 23 June 2020
TAGGED: Iraq
The British army’s choice of unqualified junior officers to lead its police investigations unit during and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq contributed to soldiers escaping accountability for abuses, former members of the unit have told Declassified UK.