Western collusion with vicious dictators is a policy choice. But it is also an individual choice by those who carry out the policy. The Arab Spring has put iinto context the stand I took over our support of the Uzbek regime and our collaboration in its brutality. With that in mind, this BBC interview I [...]

There is a new international affairs magazine called International World Report. The first issue has a very interesting focus on Central Asia, The article on the Uighurs is a good introduction to the subject. There is also an interview with me. This is perfectly accurate, but as always when you read back a verbatim transcript [...]

A half hour interview here as part of Michael Buerk’s very interesting Radio 4 series. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/thechoice Meantime Murder in Samarkand appears almost totally off the shelves. I needed some copies at the weekend, and went to Waterstones in Malet St, Trafalgar Sq, Piccadilly Circus and Notting Hill Gate, to Daunts, Hatchards, Foyles, to Blackwells and [...]

I was invited to dinner last night, so I listened this morning on the Net to the abridged version of Robin Soans’ Life After Scandal which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 last night as the Friday play. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/friday_play.shtml Robin does verbatim theatre. That is to say he interviews people and then weaves their precise [...]

This link goes to a blog referencing a Frontline documentary on the alleged Toronto bomb plot, in which I participated. http://blog.throwawayyourtv.com/2007/06/cracking-toronto-terror-cell.html it is not a great documentary, giving too much implicit credence to an extremely dodgy informant, and ignoring the crucial agent provocateur aspects of the case. This series is produced out of Canada, and [...]

Human Rights Monitor is an independent Geneva based publication which monitors the work of the UN’s Human Rights Council, a body which has very little interest in human rights. What do you think about the decision at the last session of the UN Human Rights Council to keep the allegations about abuses in Uzbekistan confidential? [...]

Interview from The London Project http://londonproject.co.uk/article/murray Colonialism Returns To Africa Says Ex-Diplomat By Mattia Bagnoli June 1st, 2007 in Issue 1 Today As Tony Blair was feted as an ‘honorary chief’ in Sierra Leone this week, not everyone in London was as congratulatory towards the prime minister’s chequered foreign policy. “To me it sounds like [...]

From Education Guardian Being a bloody-minded whistleblower is the ideal qualification for a rector, the ex-ambassador tells John Crace A one-bedroomed flat in Shepherd’s Bush isn’t many people’s idea of a former diplomat’s des res. And it probably isn’t Craig Murray’s, either. But after a bruising few years, which have seen him forced out of [...]

The number of members of the United Nations has increased exponentially since the end of the Cold War but could we ever reach saturation point? BBC Radio 4 speaks to Alex Hartley, the artist who has tried to set up his own mini state in Antarctica and the former ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray. Click [...]

By Monica Eng in the Chigaco Tribune Six weeks after Craig Murray started his job as British ambassador to Uzbekistan in 2002, a packet of photos landed on his desk. Inside were pictures a mother had taken of her son’s mutilated corpse. The young man, a political prisoner accused of having ties to radical Islam, [...]

Craig Murray is now back in the UK after completing a sucessful University speaking tour on behalf of the Bush Commission. We will be posting a couple of radio interviews from the tour begining with this one below: KQED FORUM with Michael Krasny Janis Karpinski and Craig Murray: Torture and Human Rights Go to KQED [...]

PACIFICA KPFA FLASHPOINTS with Dennis Bernstien Tuesday, May 2, 2006 – The former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan accuses the Bush and Blair administrations of war crimes and crimes against humanity: Torture, Oil and Ken Lay Listen Download Podcast

An interview with Craig Murray published in February in The Courier There are some things Craig Murray still feels guilty about even though they weren’t his fault. The biggest regret of the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan is having dinner with a professor of literature who disagreed with his Government’s use of torture. ”While we [...]

Craig Murray was interviewed on Democracy Now on Thursday, prior to testifying at the Bush Commission in New York this weekend. “We spend the hour with the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray. The British government has stopped the publication of his book. In a Democracy Now exclusive, Murray tells why he defied the [...]

Craig is interviewed together with Colonel Janis Karpinski on New York Public Radio, where they talk about detainee abuse and the surrounding issues. The interview can be heard here

In an interview with BBC radio’s PM programme Craig talks about his decision to release key confidential documents on the internet and the implications for the UK government. Click here to listen to the interview via Andy Ramblings Mainstream and blog news coverage of the story as it develops is being logged here and here

With Sir Christopher Meyer’s book hot off the press, Craig Murray and Simon Jenkins succinctly debate the rights and wrongs of memoir publication by former Diplomats. Click here to listen to the BBC R4 Today interview.

As part of his speaking tour in the US Craig was interviwed yesterday in Washington DC on WAMU Radio. You can listen here to the interview with Real Player or Windows Media Player (24.09.05 – Apologies to anyone who followed the mobile link yesterday to a very interesting, but completely unrelated interview!) “Craig Murray may [...]

From The Sunday Times (18.09.05) An interview with Craig Murray by John Sweeney, the producer of the forthcoming TV documentary. Our sacked man in Tashkent tells John Sweeney he won’t give up his fight against Britain’s reliance on foreign intelligence obtained by torture It’s early morning and Craig Murray -our former man in Uzbekistan -is [...]

An interview with Chicago Public Radio on Uzbekistan – part of their Worldview series Click here to listen with Real Player