THE United Kingdom is not an entity that deserves to exist because it has lost any moral authority it had. With these words Craig Murray, the former UK ambassador who exposed torture and murder in Uzbekistan, made his case for the break-up the United Kingdom at the Convention’s February plenary. Tony Blair’s failure to consider [...]

I am addressing the plenary of the Scottish Independence Convention at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood on Thursday 4 February at 6.30pm. The subject of my address is Might is Right: Torture and the Moral Void of UK Foreign Policy Since Robin Cook. As ever, I won’t have a text, but I expect to cover [...]

I still find the internet amazing. My daughter just found this video of me making a speech at an anti-Islamophobia conference a few months ago. I seem to be rambling a bit, but my heart’s in the right place. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pgobHBv5qM

The London Sound Posse have compiled a series of interviews and speeches by Craig that are available on the A-Infos Radio Project site. Click on the links below to listen or visit their site to download. A speech at Campacc civil liberties conference The Q & A from the launch of “Murder in Samarkand” in [...]

As part of the The Premio Alta Qualit’ delle Citta? human rights awards, an event called Lessons of Value (pdf) is taking place at the University of Bologna, in collaboration with the Municipality of Bologna and the Centro San Domenico. The three finalists, David Grossman, Craig Murray, and Laura Perna will be addressing students and [...]

A video of Craig’s speech at the recent conference on ‘Islamophobia and the war on terror’ can be viewed here Over 650 delegates from across Britain, representing dozens of organisations, filled the People’s Assembly on 18 November 2006. The Assembly brought together peace and anti-war groups, trade unions, faith groups, community groups, political parties and [...]

Sheffield Indymedia hosts a video of Craig’s presentation at Sheffield Hallam University on 9th October 2006.

On Monday, October 2nd, more than six hundred people packed into Cooper Union’s Great Hall, New York, for a meeting held by World Can’t Wait [worldcantwait.org], to respond to Bush’s new torture legislation and to mobilize for nation-wide protest on October 5th to Drive Out the Bush Regime. Craig was one one of several speakers [...]

A recording of Craig Murray’s talk, organised by Merseyside Stop the War Coalition in Liverpool on the 13th Sept, can be heard here. “Speaking to a crowd of about 100 Craig held the room for about half an hour, talking about his time as ambassador to Uzbekistan, the use and misuse of intelligence, and the [...]

The Samuel Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence is awarded by a panel of former CIA operatives and analysts. Before the award was given Ray McGovern’s read the following citation: As U.K. Ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2002 to 2004 Mr. Murray learned that the intelligence authorities of the U.S. and U.K. were receiving and using [...]

On his recent speaking tour of the US Craig Muray spoke to an audience at Radio Free Europe. Their press release is given below. Uzbekistan’s Human Rights Violations Lead to Increased Isolationism (Washington, DC–September 29, 2005) Uzbekistan’s increasingly isolated totalitarian government keeps itself in power through massive human rights violations and a system of slave [...]

Just posted – the transcript of a speach given by Craig Murray at the Policy Exchange on the 28th June 2005. A Bastard but Our Bastard: British Policy in Central Asia

By Mohammad Ziauddin This article was written in response to Craig Murray’s speech at SOAS on 20 June 2005 The word ‘tidemark’ now makes my skin crawl. I will not be able to go to the seaside again or clean a bathtub without thinking of boiled human flesh. And, indeed, why should I enjoy that [...]

Transcript of a Speech given by Craig Murray at the Policy Exchange 28.6.05. Craig Murray, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan I will take quite a lot of background as read. If I can recommend to you my website, www.craigmurray.co.uk, you can bore yourself rigid with longer speeches of mine if you so desire, and find [...]

The following is a transcript of a speech given by former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray at York University on the 24th February. It has been slightly edited for ease of reading. I’m going to start with a brief anecdote from my career. I was in the diplomatic service for twenty years after leaving [...]

UZBEKISTAN HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM Social conditions of the majority of workers in Uzbekistan are today considerably worse than they were in the Soviet era. This is not the claim of the left, but a point made by the former UK Ambassador to the Central Asian republic, Craig Murray. Murray, a career [...]

Chatham House – The trouble with Uzbekistan THE TROUBLE WITH UZBEKISTAN Speech by Craig Murray British Ambassador to the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2002-04 Chatham House, Monday 8 November 2004 This speech is issued on the understanding that if any extract is used, the speaker and Chatham House should be credited, preferably with the date of [...]

I am most happy to be here today to join in Freedom House’s Open House. This is a welcome addition to the resources available to the community which is working to improve basic human rights here in Uzbekistan. The organisers are to be congratulated on the initiative, as are the US government for their assistance [...]