BBC Radio 4 – “On The Ropes” Tue 5 Jul, 09:00 – 09:30 30 mins John Humphrys discusses drinking, diplomacy and human rights with Britain’s former ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, who claims to have been sacked for telling the truth. You will need RealPlayer to listen to this interview. Downloaded it free from

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The Metro – 60 Second Interview: by Kieran Meeke, May 17th, 2005 As Britain’s Ambassador to the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan, Craig Murray spoke out against the human rights abuses of the US-funded regime long before the recent massacre. He lost his job last year and stood against Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in the [...]

Index on Censorship – Craig Murray interviewed:Craig Murray, Britain’s former ambassador to Uzbekistan, has been portrayed in the media as a colourful and dotty rogue with a penchant for bars, girls, Range-Rovers and outrageous breaches of diplomatic protocol. In August 2003, he was confronted with a series of disciplinary charges by the Foreign Office, which [...]

Author: Sam Webber writing in ConcreteOnline The former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, visited UEA at the end of last term. Having risen quickly through the ranks within the Diplomatic Service, it was a shock when he was suspended from the post in November 2004, before finally being laid off in February of this [...]

Socialist Worker – Craig Murray, the doorstep diplomatFocus: Could the election be won by fraud? (by Anindya Bhattacharyya) Former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, now standing as an independent anti-war candidate against Jack Straw, spoke to Anindya Bhattacharyya Follow the link or peek below the fold for more:

The New Statesman – Our man in Blackburn (by Paul Routledge) Paul Routledge meets the ex-ambassador who wants to bring down the Foreign Secretary Craig Murray, our troublesome former man in Tashkent, is at a loss to understand why he has not been charged under the Official Secrets Act. After all, he has disclosed secret [...]

Boston Globes – US handling of terror suspects questioned (by Farah Stockman) WASHINGTON — The former British ambassador to Uzbekistan says that over the past three years, the United States has routinely handed over dozens of low-level terrorism suspects to Uzbekistan, an authoritarian regime that systematically uses torture to obtain terrorist confessions during interrogations. The [...]

Nouse – Taking a stand against human rights abuses: From a British perspective, Mr. Murray observes that a “terrible thing happened in the Civil Service” following the September 11th attacks. Criticism of the new ‘war on terror’, he argues, is increasingly unacceptable within a Civil Service that is no longer impartial. He ascribes this particularly [...]

Channel 4′s shocking documentary, “Torture; the dirty business” was broadcast on Tuesday 1 March 2005. In the documentary, Craig Murray talks in detail about the torture cases he investigated as Britain’s Ambassador to Uzbekistan, and his objections to the use by the UK government of information gained by the Uzbek authorities through torture. To view [...]

BBC Sunday Herald – Ex-ambassador slams Straw over torture (by Alan Crawford) FOREIGN Secretary Jack Straw has abandoned all pretence of an ethical foreign policy, and the government’s condemnation of torture “doesn’t mean anything”, a former British ambassador has told the Sunday Herald. Craig Murray, the former ambassador to Uzbekistan who last week announced he [...]

The Independent – A UK diplomat says Britain is part of a worldwide torture plot. Is he telling the truth? (by Raymond Whitaker) Craig Murray is a very undiplomatic diplomat. Former ambassadors are supposed to be tending their flowers in Home Counties gardens, but this one is not. He is, instead, making extraordinary allegations, the [...]

Radio Free Europe – Uzbekistan: Interview With Former British Ambassador Craig Murray (by Kathleen Moore) Prague, 18 February 2005 (RFE/RL) — Craig Murray may be one of Britain’s least diplomatic diplomats in recent memory. While ambassador to Tashkent, he spoke publicly about repression and the lack of democratic freedoms in Uzbekistan. Last year he accused [...]

The Guardian – Former ambassador takes redundancy (by Nick Paton Walsh) Craig Murray, the controversial former ambassador to Uzbekistan who was removed from his post, has taken a ?315,000 redundancy payment from the Foreign Office, it emerged yesterday. Mr Murray was recalled to Britain in October after a memo was leaked to the media in [...]

Indymedia – Uk torture: Interview with Craig Murray: Ex-British Ambassador to Uzbekistan (by Laurence Walker) Q: Could you just give an overview of your current situation? CM: I’m still suspended on full pay. That’s my official status, which is very peculiar. At least I’m still being paid, but I think they’re trying to summon up [...]

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IRIN News – UZBEKISTAN: Interview with Craig Murray, former UK ambassador ANKARA, 18 Nov 2004 (IRIN) – While a mission from the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) is touring Central Asia, Uzbekistan, long criticised by the international community over its poor human rights record and the practice of torture, [...]

BBC Radio 4 Today Programme – Ambassador speaks out (by Sanchia Berg) Click here to hear the interview with John Humphries The British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray has spoken to the Today Programme after he was ordered back to London by the Foreign Office. Craig Murray took up his post in Uzbekistan in 2002. [...]

The Guardian – The envoy who said too much (by Nick Paton Walsh) Six hours after Jamal Mirsaidov met with the British ambassador, the limp and mutilated corpse of his grandson was dumped on his doorstep. The body was battered and one arm appeared to have been immersed in boiling fluid until the skin had [...]

BBC Radio 4 – Today Programme – The Craig Murray Affair Craig Murray is now preparing to return to his post, after reports on this programme and in the press. According to the Foreign Office, he has always been our ambassador to Uzbekistan, temporarily absent on sick leave. His friends though believe there was an [...]