Every day the UK and US prove they are no longer democracies respectful of civil liberty.
By Neil Clark: Incarcerating the former UK diplomat, human rights activist, and
blogger Craig Murray for contempt of court is a disproportionate
measure which could have grave repercussions for independent journalism.
Just 17 months ago, I
shared a ‘Free Julian Assange/Imperialism on Trial’ platform with Craig
Murray in London. Now Craig, like Julian, is ‘in the nick’. How
far-fetched that would have seemed back in February 2020! Then again,
hasn’t everything that’s happened since early 2020 been rather
far-fetched?
As it turned out, it wasn’t Murray’s defence of
Julian Assange which got him into trouble, (or at least not directly),
but certain blogs he wrote on the trial of former SNP leader Alex
Salmond, who was accused of sexual assault. Murray was of the firm
opinion that Salmond’s trial was a political set-up. That he was the
victim, like Assange, of a witch-hunt. So naturally, as a follower of
Salmond, he wanted to try to do something about it.