UK government planned to discredit Amnesty International in response to its investigative work on British forces’ use of torture in Northern Ireland.

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1. Starmer also discredited it by pretending Israel wasn’t an apartheid state tbf

2. AI frequently follow the path of least resistance in their investigations

3. Got new link?

4. > Responding to the Declassified UK report, Grainne Teggart, campaigns manager for Amnesty, said the “damning files reveal a shameful determination to keep human rights abuses hidden and an unscrupulous government prepared to use smear tactics as a cover-up”.

   > “The UK government has a long, dark history of using propaganda to deflect from its human rights violations,” she said. “Our mission in Northern Ireland in the 1970s led by our esteemed former colleague Thomas Hammerberg, was a watershed moment, and found the brutal use of torture by British state forces.

   But I thought propaganda was just one of those things those other *bad* countries do.

5. When ones government attacks those who do good in the world you know you’re in trouble.

6. Hard to discredit someone else when you have zero credibility…

7. Sounds like a British government run by Johnson.

8. **Things a government doesn’t like:**

   Procedural lawyers

   Human smuggling NGOS

   Lying press

   Activist judges

   **things that safeguard your rights**

   See above

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