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Freedom House, a Washington-based think tank <\/span>funded<\/span><\/a> almost entirely by the US government, published a <\/span>report<\/span><\/a> last week designating 64 of the world\u2019s 210 countries or territories as \u201cnot free\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than half of them are ruled by regimes supported to varying degrees by the United Kingdom, <\/span>Declassified<\/span><\/i> has found.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Britain sells arms, provides security training or has troops deployed to at least 36 of the countries listed as \u201cnot free\u201d, comprising 56% of the total.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The regimes range from absolute monarchies to those run by authoritarian leaders who hold unfair elections or subject territories to military occupation.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The findings undermine the British government\u2019s constant claim to be a \u201c<\/span>force for good<\/span><\/a>\u201d in the world. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boris Johnson\u2019s 2019 election manifesto said \u201cour alliances with like-minded democracies\u201d were a reason \u201cfor the UK to hold its head high\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freedom House ranks countries according to their electoral systems, freedom of speech and rule of law.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although many of the countries listed by the think tank as \u201cnot free\u201d are opposed by the UK \u2014 such as Russia, China, Syria and Iran \u2014 most are UK allies.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These include Gulf regimes like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Egypt, Turkey, Uganda, Rwanda, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Brunei.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyone opposing authoritarian rule in these states \u2014 whether political activists, human rights advocates or journalists \u2014 is vulnerable to being killed, kidnapped or sentenced to jail.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Not free\u2019<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Africa has a number of countries designated as \u201cnot free\u201d where regimes receive strong UK support.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One is Egypt\u2019s military junta, which has arrested as many as <\/span>60,000 political prisoners<\/span><\/a> since overthrowing the country\u2019s democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morsi died after being put on trial and his son Abdullah is believed to have been <\/span>assassinated<\/span><\/a> by poisoning. Last year Egypt hanged <\/span>152<\/span><\/a> prisoners, including <\/span>activists<\/span><\/a> from Morsi\u2019s party, the Muslim Brotherhood.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The central African country of Rwanda has a draconian president, <\/span>Paul Kagame<\/span><\/a>, who is a close friend of Tony Blair and won his last election with 98% of the vote.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kagame runs a police state that pursues critics beyond its borders. His regime kidnapped a leading dissident from Dubai and put him on trial in Rwanda\u2019s capital Kigali last month.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dissident, Paul Rusesabagina, was portrayed in the film <\/span>Hotel Rwanda<\/span><\/i> as helping to save more than 1,000 people during the Rwandan genocide. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 66-year-old businessman is now charged with \u201cterrorism and murder\u201d over his support for an armed opposition group and could spend the rest of his life in prison.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boris Johnson with foreign leaders at the UK Africa Investment Summit in London, 2020. Egypt\u2019s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni and Rwanda\u2019s President Paul Kagame stand in the middle of the front row (Photo: Yoweri K Museveni \/ Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the Sahara desert, another African state, Mali, fell from \u201cpartly free\u201d to \u201cnot free\u201d after a military coup toppled its elected government last August. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Britain stepped up its engagement in Mali after the coup, <\/span>deploying<\/span><\/a> 300 troops to the country on a UN counter-terrorism mission. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other African countries rated \u201cnot free\u201d include Cameroon, where Paul Biya has ruled the country \u201c<\/span>with an iron fist<\/span><\/a>\u201d since 1982 and acts as a president-for-life. This week the UK government signed a <\/span>\u00a3200-million trade deal<\/span><\/a> with his regime.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biya\u2019s troops receive British military training \u2014 despite him admitting they <\/span>killed civilians<\/span><\/a> in English-speaking parts of Cameroon where there is a separatist movement.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Europe, Freedom House rates Turkey \u2014 a Nato member and close UK ally \u2014 as \u201cnot free\u201d, owing to the authoritarian policies of its president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday 8 March, Boris Johnson <\/span>spoke<\/span><\/a> to Erdo\u011fan by telephone and agreed to increase military cooperation between the two countries.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erdo\u011fan\u2019s government has put more journalists <\/span>behind bars<\/span><\/a> than any other country in the world. Many of them come from Turkey\u2019s Kurdish minority.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elif Sarican from the Kurdish Peoples\u2019 Assembly, a grassroots group based in the UK, told <\/span>Declassified <\/span><\/i>that repression in Turkey should \u201coutrage anyone who believes in even the most basic level of democracy\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said: \u201cParticularly for the Kurdish people, Turkey has never been a haven, but the past decade has made it impossible for political representation and social expression on any level. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cElected mayors and MPs are consistently and systematically removed from their posts and arrested, to be replaced with government trustees.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarican added: \u201cIt is a shame and disgrace that the UK government not only stays silent on these atrocities, but actively supports and signs trade deals with Turkey in the name of a post-Brexit Britain.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Abominable stain\u2019<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Middle East has a particular panoply of \u201cunfree\u201d countries ruled by dictatorships receiving an array of British military, diplomatic and intelligence support. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just this week, Bahrain\u2019s king was <\/span>pictured<\/span><\/a> with what <\/span>Declassified<\/span><\/i> has identified as a British-made <\/span>sniper rifle<\/span><\/a> \u2014 the same type of <\/span>weapon<\/span><\/a> his troops allegedly used to shoot protesters during the 2011 Arab Spring uprising.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The king\u2019s highly repressive regime, which is closely allied to the UK and houses a British naval base, is accused of beating child protesters arrested last month and threatening them with \u201crape and electric shocks\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sayed Ahmed AlWadaei of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy said: \u201cA police officer who threatens a 13-year-old with rape or electric shocks from a car battery is an abominable stain on Bahrain\u2019s reputation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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King Hamad of Bahrain (left) inspects a British-made sniper rifle on Monday. (Photo: Bahrain News Agency)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Other Gulf dictatorships which enjoy major UK military support include the UAE, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia \u2014 where over 30 imprisoned human rights activists are currently staging a <\/span>hunger strike<\/span><\/a> in the capital, Riyadh. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prisoners include Mohammed al-Qahtani, a 55-year-old economics professor who co-founded the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association, a group calling for an elected parliament. He is serving 15 years in jail for his peaceful activism.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday 10 March, a Saudi court upheld the conviction of <\/span>Loujain al-Hathloul<\/span><\/a>, an activist who has gained worldwide attention for championing the right of women to drive cars in the kingdom. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ruling means that despite her recent release from prison, she is still subject to a five-year travel ban.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proportion of the world\u2019s autocratic regimes supported by the UK would be even higher if Freedom House\u2019s methodology was not so clearly tailored to Washington\u2019s geopolitical priorities. Last year, <\/span>94%<\/span><\/a> of the think-tank\u2019s revenue came from the US government.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, the group designates several territories as \u201cnot free\u201d which are occupied by US adversary Russia, such as Crimea.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Freedom House does not include similar territories illegally occupied by the US or UK, such as <\/span>Guam<\/span><\/a> in the Pacific or the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Britain forcibly removed <\/span>Chagossians<\/span><\/a> from their islands in the 1960s and 70s to make way for a US military base. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite decades of campaigning, their descendants have not been allowed to resettle on the Chagos Islands, which remain under UK military rule.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A UK government spokesperson told <\/span>Declassified<\/span><\/i>: \u201cThe UK will always stand up for our values and defend and promote human rights. The Government takes its export responsibilities seriously and rigorously assesses all export licences in accordance with strict criteria. We will not issue any export licences where to do so would be inconsistent with these criteria.\u201d<\/span> <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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