contempt of court
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UK: State Suppression
11 June 2021 — Craig Murray Yesterday the House of Commons was debating “safety of journalists”. After reams of MP waffle about evil foreigners, the Alba Party was allocated 60 seconds and tried to use it to raise my case. That is a completely unedited extract from Hansard. So much for the “mother of democracies”. Continue reading
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Official: Lady Dorrian Rules Courts Should Apply Different Standards to Bloggers and Mainstream Media
We are racing to lodge our application to the Supreme Court by Friday, so I am just going to post an email I just sent my legal team: Continue reading
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Scottish High Court Denies Whistleblower Craig Murray’s Request To Appeal Conviction Over Blog Posts
In the United Kingdom, diplomat-turned whistleblower Craig Murray suffered a defeat at the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland on June 8, when three judges refused to grant him permission to appeal their earlier decision to convict him of contempt of court for his blog posts on the trial of former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond. Continue reading
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Craig Murray: Appeal For Defence Funds
On Friday I shall be sentenced, very possibly to prison, for contempt of court by “jigsaw identification”. While I do not believe anybody has ever been imprisoned for “jigsaw identification” before, my entire prosecution has been so perverse that I cannot imagine why they have done it unless that is the intention.] Continue reading
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Letter from London: A Troubling Decision
In the last Letter from London, I discussed the background to the contempt of court case against the historian, journalist and former diplomat Craig Murray for his reporting of the criminal and civil proceedings against Scotland’s former first minister, Alex Salmond, on allegations of sexual assault, for which he was acquitted on all charges at… Continue reading
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The Alex Salmond Trial and Censorship
On Monday morning at 6am I shall again be queuing up outside a courtroom. I never had any intention this blog would become so concentrated on court reporting, but then I never expected the state to be trying to put so many of my friends in prison. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 