Craig Murray update
Craig Murray has reluctantly had to remove the documents, corroborating the account in his book, Murder in Samarkand, from his website after threats of legal action from the Foreign Office. It seems that in this country freedom of information, much like the libel laws, is an exclusive plaything of the rich:
To defend this case would cost the price of a London house. I don’t have a house, in London or anywhere else.
If you haven’t seen the documents, they’re available here, here, here, here, here, here, and as a bittorrent here.
Also, it’s worth asking, does the issue of copyright with regard to freedom of information have wider implications?
Update: Chris Lightfoot has a little darling of an idea (via The Sharpener).
Posted on July 12th, 2006 at 6:56pm under T.W.A.T., Uzbekistan
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Given enough information to identify the documents (ideally title and date, or file reference or something like that) anybody can get a copy of the documents perfectly legally by requesting them from the Foreign Office under the Freedom of Information Act — at least for those documents which Craig himself so obtained. (It’s not clear which were which from his own page.)
More on this here.
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