Dear friends, today I am posting an email (with permission) describing the situation of another political prisoner in the UK, not Assange and not the, apparently held incommunicado, Skripal father and daughter. I thought that it was important to post it here
Andrei
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Dear Saker,
You probably don’t know that Julian Assange is not the only political prisoner in the UK.
Craig Murray was from 1984 to 2004 was a very successful member of the British Foreign Office. At an early age his promoted British Ambassador to Uzbekistan. There he was shocked by the human rights situation and sought to protect the victims of government oppression. Boiling prisoners to death in vats of hot water was a local a specialty.
Anxious to appease their US masters, the UK Foreign Office dropped him heavier and heavier hints that he should stop his activities in the cause of the human rights that the West proclaims and above all stop writing and talking about it within the Foreign Office. He refused.
Eventually the US lackies in London forced his resignation. In the end he won a considerable amount of compensation. Of course the establishment have never forgiven him.
Since then he has had an eventful career as an author, journalist, human rights supporter and an activist for Scottish Independence. He is an active supporter of Julian Assange.
The Scottish government and judicial authorities, no doubt egged on by London, got their own back by alleging on the most specious grounds that his very fair, discrete and accurate reports of a high profile very political trial of a former Scottish Prime Minister for sexual abuse of female staff, were contempt of court.
At the same time the main stream media were allowed to report the same information because they were proper journalists and Murray only wrote on the internet.
Murray, who is a not very healthy 62 year old, was duly convicted of contempt of court and has been imprisoned for his journalism in Edinburgh since August 12th this year. He is about as much danger to the public as my Granny.
Scandalously, to the astonishment of all lawyers, the UK Supreme Court refused to hear the case on a point of law concerning freedom of speech.
His imprisonment conveniently stopped him giving evidence in Spain in an important trial involving the CIA.
Naturally his life in prison is not easy. It would be great if any of your readers felt like send him a letter or postcard of comfort and encouragement. Nothing inflammatory, just support for what he stands for. Here is the address: —
157095 C Murray
G3/34
H M Prison Edinburgh
33 Stenhouse Road
Edinburgh
EH11 3LN
Scotland
He is a role model for all right thinking citizens, in the West, who want to preserve their freedoms. At the same time he is suffering for it. He has a wife and young family and is unable to earn, even by writing, whilst in prison.
I hope you will be able to publish this letter or the information it contains.
Best wishes and thank you for all you do,
Regards
Robert Harneis
Journalist Strasbourg
Thank you Saker for posting this article. Like many of your British readers I also follow Craig’s blog. It’s lamentable comparing the contortions the U.K. media go through promoting a criminal like Navalny compared to their total silence on Craig Murray and to a slightly lesser extent, Julian Assange. The hypocrisy of the Brutish media has never been in clearer focus.
I have written to Craig and urge your readers to do the same. Just don’t expect a very quick reply. The prison authorities have restricted his access to stamps on the grounds that they could be used as currency for buying drugs from other prisoners. No TV crews allowed to interview him inside. In contrast to certain Russian prisoners.
He is one of the most honest men in Britain and it is a travesty that he is in jail. Just looking forward to reading his blogs when he gets out. I am certain he will not be cowed and will not pull his punches.
The abrogation of the British news media from doing their job is exemplified by the BBC.
To think all British households are expected to pay an annual tithe to help fund them.
BBC = Broadcasting Bullshit Constantly
The Justice Campaign for Craig Murray is keeping this very alive. Of course, besides the ludicrous accusations in Scotland, he is being punished for his staunch support of Julian Assange.
https://craigmurrayjustice.org.uk/
He is also being punished for pushing for independence, when the SNP ‘leadership’ want to be part of the US-UK neocon club by parroting out victim stories by the hundred thousand.
Craig Murray has publicly stated that he received the Democrat National Committee [DNC] data in New York. Thus he is potentially the prime witness in the Assange extradition case. His public account shows that the claim that the DNC servers were hacked is highly questionable,to put it mildly. Rather his testimony constitutes prima facie grounds for concluding that it was a leak. This view has been confirmed by those working with Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity [VIPS] founded by Ray McGovern and others. Their forensic analysis of the data sets indicates that the DNC servers were not hacked. The very fact that there is more than one data set and that they have been merged prior to sending to Wikileaks also suggests that it was a leak. If that is true, then Assange has no case to answer.
The FBI has never attempted to interview Craig Murray, despite his public statement on the DNC servers’ data. Nor has he been called as a witness in the Assange court case.
With regard to the contempt of court case in Scotland, the following indicates that the judgement of the court is open to question on various grounds:
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/07/04/letter-from-london-the-twisted-case-of-craig-murray/
During this period, Craig Murray has moved back to Scotland in order to compaign for independence for Scotland, but not only has his advice on international law been disregarded by the Scottish National Party [SNP] when he was a member, but he was prevented from even discussing possible strategy and tactics to achieve independence at a fringe meeting of an annual national party conference of the SNP.
He has since joined the new Alba Party which is also campaigning for independence and which is recuiting at quite a high rate, as SNP members become disenchanted with what many see as incompetence or worse regarding the use of party funds, the lack of any attempt by the present SNP leadership to push for independence (except by making token proposals to the UK government) and what many view as the incipient totalitarianim manifested by the silencing of dissent within the SNP and against ordinary citizens who make complaints, even on fairly mundane matters.
The police are now investigating apparent irregularities in the SNP party finances, but whatever the outcome of that, the loss of membership and earlier alleged over-spending means that the SNP seems to be in serious financial diffculties.
It was a leak:
Seth Rich.
I greatly admire Craig Murray even though I have not always agreed with all of his views. He stands out as an enormously honest and FRANK observer of current events with an insight of the workings of governments that few of us have. I was an avid reader of his blog.
He has been shamefully treated by the Scottish and the British so-called JUSTICE systems that reveal the devious and dirty doings of the Scottish politico-justice system that first attacked Alec Salmond over trumped-up charges for which he was totally acquitted and which Craig Murray fearlessly reported. For his honesty, poor Craig now finds himself imprisoned by a FEMALE judge. Why emphasise Female? Because it is likely all part of a plot by a network of feminists here in Scotland that initially tried to sink Alec Salmond and has now turned on Craig Murray.
Yes, Craig has been a stalwart supporter and close friend of Julian Assange, but it is probably because of his support of Alec Salmond that caused the ire of the Feminists.
His case is also a window on the murky world of Scottish Nationalist politics and of the present First Minister who appears to have ‘knifed’ her mentor (Salmond) in the back in seeking to prevent his political come-back.
“I greatly admire Craig Murray even though I have not always agreed with all of his views”.
I think a lot of people would concur, David. I disagree with Craig about quite a lot of things, although I suspect that his factual knowledge is far greater than mine on most of them.
What I would really love would be to have a good chat with him over a wee dram or two. I’m sure he could further my education.
I think the one characteristic of Craig’s that everyone would stress is his granite probity. He says and does what he believes to be right, and nothing shakes him in his convictions – except new facts.
Yes, to share a dram with Craig and his knowledge of the Seth Rich affair would be an eye-opener.
Thank you for posting this.
I first began following Mr, Murray during the Skripal saga and found him to give the best coverage on that as well as false flags. In spite of everything the British gov’t did to stop him he continued to comment.
Please support him.
The arrest of Craig Murray shows what a disgusting state that the UK has sunk to. The “judge’ who said what he did is illegal but perfectly fine if a corporate person did it is the definition of a Kangaroo court. Trading places, the West 50 years ago and Russia now.
Fifty years ago in the UK was Bloody Sunday.
It’s what’s called ‘extrajudicial killing’ which has been a classic cover up for 50 years. Cabinet Ministers lying through their teeth, senior military officers getting huge promotions, all enquiries on a par with Phillip Zellikow.
Great moral example to set, that one…..
Another reason that the appalling SNP leadership in Holyrood targeted Mr Murray was that he was a highly prominent member of the sections of the nationalist community that were vigorously and volubly calling for far more rapid moves toward independence.
Several people were even suggesting that Mr Murray might be the first President of an Independent Scotland.
If you start from the premise that the SNP leadership don’t want independence, they just want to extort Westminster with a never-ending victim narrative, whilst grovelling and schlurping before every globalist neocon going, you can see why Mr Murray would need to be silenced.
Ms Sturgeon was not above organising false sexual misconduct charges against her predecessor, Alex Salmond.
When she lost that battle in a court of law, she promptly put an end to trial by jury (if good honest men and true can’t be trusted to knife her opponents, then what use are they, eh?) and then targeted who she perceived might be her next dangerous competitor for top dog status.
She is really a leading light for all the progress that can be made with women in charge, isn’t she?
An exemplary man jailed by a woman, as someone above noted, and thereby considerably lowering the concept of Woman, of which is all the rage of course.
Considering that the UK is central in the current knot of world crisis, I am surprise so little coverage is given to its politics and culture.. It is the same as USA, China, Russia, people all over the earth are good, and the constant slamming of countries based on political, economic grounds is but a show of base hatred no worse than what it refers or relates to.
Sincere thanks for posting this Andrei, Craig Murray deserves it, and the least that could be done in support of his his family, extraordinary greatly under estimated work, and his excellent blog, which despite any possible disagreements of opinions of readers, stands out as exemplary in its tone of manners and intelligent respect.
I admire Craig Murray greatly and sent him a letter many weeks ago, when the first call for letters was circulated on the internet. I have received no reply and wonder if the prison authorities have passed my letter on to him?
Can’t answer that.
Nothing would surprise me when promotions and future careers are at stake. I don’t think he willl be able to reply properly until he is released. See comment above “The prison authorities have restricted his access to stamps on the grounds that they could be used as currency for buying drugs from other prisoners.” I think that tells you everything.
There is no doubt that any support is important even if he isnt allowed to see it.
I have three of his books. I suggest we help him by buying a book. I particularly recommend Murder in Samarkand, the story about his assignment as ambassador to Usbekistan. On Amazon you can order them.
It is also possible to send an email to Craig Wright in prison this is a family, volunteer run service : https://www.emailaprisoner.com/
https://craigmurrayjustice.org.uk/ for further up to date info.
Craig Murray for Prime Minister..
Thanks for posting this. I nearly met Craig Murray in 2009, after reading his book Murder in Samarkand. I was about to turn up at the House of Commons, as a witness, and he asked can anyone record this. I didn’t know how to do it, but thought I might be able to. It was an obscure feed.
I have never met Craig Murray, but for many years posted on his blog.
I disagree with some of his political views, but he is the most honest courageous man of integrity, I have ever come across.
The fact that he is in jail, when it is completely obvious, that he has not committed any crime, is a very sad reflection, partcularly on scottish justice, but english justice too.
What have we become?
“Craig Murray – Torture 1 of 7”
28 Apr 2009
“Craig Murray, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Provides Evidence on UK Government Complicity in Torture.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF9spgagSHI
Tony
Wonderful to get this info.
Of course I shall write to Craig Murray.
What happened to him was absolutely shocking.
On a par with the abhorrent treatment of Assange because part of the persecution of Murray was payback for his advocacy for and loyalty to Assange and his faithful dissemination of information about Assange, his case, and his family.
And, of course, to shut him up.
… and to frighten the others.