Story for Private Eye about the Information Commissioner allowing the National Archives three and a half months to answer FOI requests for historic government records.
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Beyond Belize
Story for Private Eye about the ongoing secrecy surrounding British aid for Belize’s Special Branch in 1983, despite a former police officer claiming they “sent a man to his death”.
Whitehall-wash
Story for Private Eye about censorship of historic government records.
‘We Sent a Man to His Death’: How the British Army Betrayed Its Own Informant to a Murderous Junta
A former Belize Special Branch officer responds to my investigation into Britain’s cooperation with a genocidal Guatemalan regime at the height of its civil war, claiming that “We sent a man to his death”. Read the full story here.
Revealed: How the British Army Cooperated with the Murderous Guatemalan Regime During its Bloody Civil War
Revealed: The Army’s ‘Overseas Study Tours’ Are Luxury Trips to Meet Dictators
Investigation for VICE
Bahrain prison officials made visits to crisis-hit Maghaberry jail
Story for Irish News
Torture regime’s £2.1million to train prison guards
UK foreign aid is revealed after Bahrain’s human rights record is criticised
- King Hamad of Bahrain sat next to the Queen at 90th birthday celebration
- But campaigners condemned country’s record of oppression and killings
- UK foreign aid used to train guards at prisons where torture said to be rife
Story for Mail on Sunday
Inside the detention industry
Despite the growth of detention centres for refugees and migrants, they remain shrouded in secrecy. Two insiders speak out.
Feature for New Humanist magazine
Exclusive: The British Army’s Secret Plan to Prop Up South Africa’s Ruling Party
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