Press TV – Oct 17, 2023
A former British diplomat and human rights activist has been detained under the country’s counterterrorism laws after declaring support for the people of Palestine and criticizing Israel’s atrocities against them.
Craig Murray was detained on Monday under the UK’s so-called Prevention of Terrorism Act after he returned from a trip to Iceland.
Earlier today @CraigMurrayOrg was detained, returning from Iceland, under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
He was there meeting other #FreeAssangeNOW activists and Wikileaks.
He was also questioned about his attendance at a #Palestinian protest outside the Icelandic Parliament.— Mark Hirst (@Documark) October 16, 2023
Before his arrest, he had taken part in a pro-Palestinian protest outside Iceland’s parliament building.
I have just returned, sodden and cold, from standing in miserable weather outside Iceland's parliament alongside hundreds of Reykjavik citizens spontaneously showing solidarity with the people of Palestine.
We started with about sixty people. Passers by flocked to us. I met MPs… https://t.co/Oc3otmOzZS— Craig Murray – (@CraigMurrayOrg) October 15, 2023
In another X post on Sunday, Murray had clearly indicated his support for Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement.
“…in the coming Gaza genocide, every act of armed resistance by Hamas and Hezbollah will have my support. If that is a crime, send me back to jail,” he said.
To be entirely plain.
I have always viscerally opposed war. I have dedicated my life to conflict resolution and reconciliation.
But in the coming Gaza genocide, every act of armed resistance by Hamas and Hezbollah will have my support.
If that is a crime, send me back to jail.— Craig Murray – (@CraigMurrayOrg) October 14, 2023
On the same day, Murray reposted an earlier X post by Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, calling on the world body to intervene for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s ongoing bloody war against the Gaza Strip, adding, “Under international law, atrocity crimes must not only be punished but also prevented.”
Once again: I implore the UN to intervene for an immediate CEASEFIRE. There can be no more delay.
Under int'l law, atrocity crimes must not only be punished but also prevented.
The only possible meaning of 'never again' is simply this: never again, for any human being. https://t.co/OIO2BmX2B9
— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) October 15, 2023
His detention came amid an all-out war waged by the Israeli regime against the besieged Gaza Strip, which has so far claimed the lives of more than 2,800 Palestinians and injured close to 11,000 others.
The war was waged after an operation by Gaza’s resistance groups, which has so far left some 1,200 Israeli forces and illegal settlers dead and close more than 200 others captive. The resistance factions launched the operation in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodshed and destruction against Palestinians.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said those supporting Hamas following the operation would be “held to account,” vowing support for the Israeli regime and pledging readiness on the part of London to provide Tel Aviv with military assistance.
Upon arresting Murray, British authorities seized his phone and other electronic devices. He was also questioned about attending the pro-Palestinian protest outside the Icelandic parliament.
A former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Murray was sacked by the country’s Foreign Office for criticizing the host country’s human rights record as well as vehemently opposing the United States administration’s extraordinary rendition program, which involved torturing terrorism suspects.
Following his sacking from the British diplomatic service, Murray embraced journalism and human rights activism, and established his own blog to publish his views and findings.
Does it mean that if anyone posts a comment supporting the people of Palestine and criticizing Israel’s atrocities against them on this site they could be arrested? Could the authorities force The Truth Seeker to give the email addresses of people who comment about these matters on this site and then arrest them? If so, in future, it might be best to make no comment regarding this subject!😒
Craig Murray is the only respected intellectual in this country. He has insight and moral integrity – not something our politicians would know anytning about.
INDIAN AND PAKISTANI COMMUNITIES IN THE UK
plan big boycott of jewish shops and supermarkets
please christians join us
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/10/16/712837/how-india-abandoned-its-traditional-pro-palestine-policy-under-modi-govt
I guess he doesn’t know that Hezbollah & Hamas (like Isis & Alqaeda) are CIA-KGB-Mossad controlled opposition/factitious terrorist orgs advancing the geopolitical objectives of Israel & ZOG.
ZOG watches, records.
ZOG ruins or imprisons, no habeas corpus.
ZOG brings wars.
ZOG conquers, enslaves.
All exemplified here.
Braverman said immigrants will be deported and like in this case people will be prosecuted for supporting Hamas (really Palistine). Strange this of immigrant stock can’t deport those crossing in dinghys.
The world has clearly turned against Israel this time. The Zionists are 100% responsible for starting the conflict with their false flag pretext. These fakes and usurers have been doing all they can with their attacks on Syria to foment a major war in the ME so the US and the UK will come to their rescue and effect the Rothschild Greater Israel project (the “Yinon Plan”). In past decades, most of the so-called “migrants” who have been herded by Soros groups, bankster-UN NGO’s, with the aide of US & UK special forces into the EU are people from Palestine, Syria and Iraq. The wars are land-clearance and ethnic-cleansing operations for Israeli expansion. If they can ignite a major war in the area they likely will kill hundreds of thousands. The Zionist say that the only good Arab is a dead one and that they are all “human animals”, which they like to think gives them a right to kill them off. This is why if we want justice we have to start boycotting Israeli products and start to purge our own nations from the inside to get rid of the monsters helping in the slaughter.
“British authorities”? “The Jews” takes less time to say, but they prefer a long-winded and mealy-mouthed approach
you british are back in Churchills times !
@Aleister
Odd isn’t it, that all these attacks & actions committed by these supposed anti-Israel/USA terrorist/militia groups: Hamas/Hezbollah/Isis/Alqaeda always benefit Israel & the USA in the end..
@ ChasMick
The money power rules by control of the money and by creating fear. If you write anything on this site, I seriously doubt anyone would give up your email address. However, if the corrupt authorities do take an interest in you, then assume that nothing is private. Free speech can only be protected with people fully exercising the right, regardless of hurt feelings. Also, more and more people are ignoring the threats and expressing their views making it stupid for the government snoops to do anything but use the comments in order to gauge trends in public opinion and the effectiveness of their propaganda.
If one person is raided or taken away by the thought police all they do is create 10 more resistors with even greater resolve. If they start screwing with us based on their snooping, they will only ignite a more reaction and much greater hostility. Covid proved to us that despite their top-down, lockstep bankster controls, with all of the payoffs and promises of immunity to those committing the crimes, what absolute #&%@ sociopaths and criminals they actually are (and ALL of them). We were also given a preview of what is in store for us in the bankster-globalist-run WEF-UN New World Order. The world they envision is a prison and more and mor people are coming to realize that unless they are prepared to fight for their basic freedoms and rights, they are failing themselves and everyone else. We have no choice but to keep on exposing all of their evils together with their names and addresses in the full light of day.
The more force they use, the more everything blows up in their faces. The old divisions and enemies they created to keep us apart are fast fading, and the new ones are becoming less and less effective. This means that people are finally beginning to focus on the real source of most of the problems.
Liam is Nico X. To disagree, he would need to be someone else, and if he were, he Would disagree