Read @pmillerinfo's groundbreaking four-part series on how the UK royals have met the tyrannical monarchies in the Gulf 217 times since the Arab Spring, how they bolster them and help sell them arms.
UK royals have met autocratic Middle East monarchies nearly once a fortnight since 2011.
Their visits have often coincided with human rights abuses in the Gulf, where pro-democracy activists are punished for criticising the Windsors ties to regimes.
Prince Andrew has held 70 meetings with repressive Middle East monarchies since the Arab Spring.
Most took place after his role as official trade envoy ended in 2011 amid the Epstein scandal, with UK govt support for his Gulf trips lasting into 2019.
As new evidence emerges of Dubai's repressive ruler holding his daughters ‘hostage’, Declassified finds Queen Elizabeth has met him 10 times since the Arab Spring.
She gave him an award a year after Princess Latifa fled Dubai and was forcibly returned.
The true nature of the Middle Eastern monarchies bolstered by the UK royals - and the number of royal meetings with them since the Arab Spring (217 in total).
Our new analysis reveals that the extent of the revolving door between Whitehall intelligence, military and foreign office officials, on the one hand, and oil giants BP and Shell, on the other, is especially striking.
Senior oil (and mining) company executives sit on the boards of several government departments, including the Ministry of Defence and Foreign Office, shaping the country's policies.
The MOD’s lifting of our blacklisting follows the announcement by Defence Secretary Ben Wallace that he has ordered an “independent review”. The MOD told our lawyers @LeighDay_Law it was “wrong” not to give a comment to us and that “we apologise for this”. rb.gy/u9vwml
REVEALED - A covert Kenyan paramilitary team armed and trained by the US and supported by UK intelligence is behind renditions and controversial killings of terror suspects in night-time raids in Kenya, Declassified UK can reveal.
Britain’s MI6 plays a key role with the CIA in identifying suspects for a ‘kill or capture’ list and finding and fixing their location. MI6 also collaborates with Kenyan intelligence officers as part of a liaison cell codenamed ARCTIC.
Declassified has published 6 investigations into legal irregularities and conflicts of interest in the Assange US extradition case. Thread.
1. Julian Assange’s judge and her husband’s links to the British military establishment exposed by WikiLeaks dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-1…
2. The son of Julian Assange’s judge is linked to an anti-data leak company created by the UK intelligence establishment dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-1…
3. Revealed: Chief magistrate in Assange case received financial benefits from secretive partner organisations of UK Foreign Office dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-0…
The UK's relationship with Saudi Arabia is one of the most under-analysed by the mainstream media, depriving the public of key knowledge about the UK's role in the world.
Check out Declassified's recent revelations in this thread.
We've revealed the UK military has a team of high-ranking soldiers embedded in the Saudi armed forces who are believed to be taking their orders from Saudi commanders.
This involves training the Saudis in “internal security”, paid for by the Saudi regime. rb.gy/mq4w2y
The UK has a secretive £2bn program it manages for the Saudi Arabian National Guard, which protects the ruling family and has been active in the war in Yemen. Sangcom employs ten times more people than the British government publicly admits. rb.gy/st1vxz
The UK has gained access to one-sixth of Belize’s entire land area for military training where it is conducting live fire exercises in at least one protected forest - while paying nothing to Belize. rb.gy/45wfs8