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A Day Of Infamy (01.08.2021) for Scotland and the UK.
“I go to jail with a clean conscience after a Kafkaesque trial. I genuinely do not know who I am supposed to have identified or which phrases I published are said to have identified them, in combination with what other information in the public domain. This judgement will have a chilling effect on reporting of the defence case at trials, to the detriment of justice, and the different treatment of bloggers and approved media is sinister.
— Craig Murray
Craig Murray will today 01/08/2021, be the first person to be imprisoned on the charge of ‘jigsaw identification’ in the UK, and indeed in the entire world. It is indeed a Day of Infamy — for justice, for truth and for free speech in the world.
In Scotland, right now, an ex-diplomat — former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan — writer, historian and blogger, https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/ is beginning his 8-month jail sentence passed down by Lady Dorrian — Scotland’s second most senior judge — for contempt of court and breach of ‘jigsaw identification’ regarding the identity of complainers in the Alex Salmond rape case. The case against Alex Salmond was found not proven.
However, the collateral damage for a case that was meant to destroy Alex Salmond as a man and as a political presence and influence in Scotland, has fallen, not upon…
