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The Times pays tribute to Baghdad fixer
27Jan10 – 4:59 pm
Emily Butselaar: The Times pays tribute to Yasser, an ‘unsung hero’
Secret police prove Maliki’s new “authoritarianism”
11Nov09 – 10:19 am
Rohan Jayasekera: The use of so-called “insult laws” to censor legitimate criticism of a country’s leader is a tool of authoritarian regimes everywhere, and now, it seems Iraq too.
Protection for Camp Ashraf
19Aug09 – 2:09 pm
Index on Censorship calls on UN to defend rights of Iranian opposition group in Iraq
Strategic communications: a force for good?
25Jun09 – 12:17 pm
Rohan Jayasekera says rights advocates can learn from the single-minded political and military approach
Still doing deals
25Jun09 – 11:09 am
John Kampfner says the secrecy of the Iraq inquiry is part of a continuing project to protect “brand Blair”
Iraq dossier emails ‘devastating’
13Mar09 – 10:45 am
This is a guest post by Chris Ames The new revelations about Tony Blair’s Iraq dossier are pretty devastating. Emails revealed intelligence experts veering from despondency about exaggerated claims to black humour about Doctor Frankenstein while policy officials asked for unhelpful caveats to be removed. Surely this is why the documents have been hidden for [...]
The right to protest wrong
11Mar09 – 3:22 pm
Ahl us Sunnah was Jama’ah is what one might call a ‘fringe group’, made up of former members of Al Muhajiroun, which was banned in 2005 after allegations of links to terror groups. Several members have since been jailed. For a fringe organisation, they do have a handy knack of gaining attention. Britain’s two biggest [...]
Straw overrules Information Tribunal
24Feb09 – 5:22 pm
This is a guest post by Chris Ames Jack Straw’s decision to veto the release of the minutes of two pre-Iraq war cabinet meetings is a dagger to the heart of the Freedom of Information Act. No one who has seen New Labour’s approach to spin and to freedom of information will have expected the [...]
An away win for freedom of information
28Jan09 – 12:30 pm
This is a guest post by Chris Ames Yesterday’s ruling that pre-Iraq war cabinet minutes must be released is a vindication for Labour’s Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, although whether the government will see it that way is another matter. It shows that the most sensitive and controversial discussions at the heart of government are [...]