Collection
A collection of documents related to the inquiry work of parliamentary committees and all-party parliamentary groups (APPGs) in areas of national security and human rights, including those of the Defence Committee, the Intelligence and Security Committee, and the Committees on Arms Export Controls.
Latest document added: 21 Jul 2026
Project archive
Hundreds of documents from a wide range of sources, representing the largest collection of publicly available material relating to allegations of war crimes committed by UK (and allied) Special Forces in Afghanistan.
Latest document added: 16 Jul 2026
News
Unredactedâs expert testimony proved central to case lodged by Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi national held in secret detention and brutally tortured for four years in CIA black sites around the world. Al-Nashiri remains detained at Guantanamo Bay, nearly 24 years after his capture.
Published: 15 Jul 2026
News
Commissioned by the former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, and based on analysis of significant new material, new report finds a range of protection and accountability failures in five separate killings from around the globe.
Published: 15 Jul 2026
Briefing
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal investigated UK complicity in the secret detention and torture of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi national who was held within the CIA torture programme between 2002-06, detained and tortured in secret prisons around the world.
Latest document added: 15 Jul 2026
Project archive
The world’s largest public collection of documents relating to the use of rendition, secret detention and torture by US and UK intelligence agencies in the ‘war on terror’ and beyond.
Latest document added: 15 Jul 2026
Briefing
Mustafa al-Hawsawi is a Saudi national arbitrarily detained at GuantÃĄnamo Bay. Between 2003-2006 he was held in the CIA torture programme, detained and tortured in secret prisons around the world. The IPT is investigating UK complicity in this mistreatment.
Latest document added: 14 Jul 2026
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All publicly available documents produced by the ongoing Independent Inquiry Relating to Afghanistan, established to examine allegations of the extrajudicial killing of unarmed Afghans by UK Special Forces units.
Latest document added: 14 Jul 2026
Collection
A wide-ranging collection of NGO reports related to UK national security and human rights, including research on torture and secret detention, arms exports, counterterrorism training and drone operations.
Latest document added: 14 Jul 2026
News
Unredacted has today published a new tranche of material from the Independent Inquiry Relating to Afghanistan, including testimony from senior UK Special Forces officers on the mounting evidence they were faced with of war crimes by units on the ground in Afghanistan.
Latest document added: 3 Jun 2026
Project archive
A large collection of declassified documents relating to Five Eyes intelligence sharing in the postwar era, with a focus on the emergence and evolution of the agreements which underpin the alliance.
Latest document added: 2 Jun 2026
Briefing
An overview of some of the key documents released to Privacy International following their US freedom of information challenge, which offered previously unseen details on the development of Five Eyes intelligence sharing in the postwar era.
Latest document added: 2 Jun 2026
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News
Two-year inquiry by a Kenyan parliamentary committee has found evidence of serious and sustained human rights violations by British troops in the country, underpinned by an ‘entrenched culture of impunity and institutional negligence.’
Published: 19 May 2026
News
Commissioned report concludes there is a ‘prevailing assumption that harm will not occur’, and finds that existing practices ‘are not a substitute for a comprehensive allegations tracking and response mechanism.’
Published: 19 May 2026
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Project archive
Hundreds of documents relating to allegations of British war crimes, particularly unlawful killings and detainee abuse, during the invasion and occupation of Iraq (Operation Telic, 2003-2011).
Latest document added: 14 May 2026
Collection
Documents relating to the Iraq Fatality Investigations (IFI), a judicial inquiry into alleged unlawful killings in Iraq by British forces.
Latest document added: 8 May 2026
Collection
Documents relating to the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation (IRTL), a statutory role tasked with carrying out annual and additional discretionary reviews of UK terrorism legislation.
Latest document added: 7 May 2026
Collection
Documents related to the work of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the body responsible for considering allegations of unlawful intrusion and other human rights violations by public bodies, including the UK intelligence services.
Latest document added: 7 May 2026
Collection
Documents relating to proceedings at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) involving appeals against citizenship deprivation and detention, deportation or exclusion from the UK on grounds of national security, or other public interest reasons.
Latest document added: 7 May 2026
News
Unredacted has today published more than 60 Royal Military Police documents relating to Operation Northmoor, the investigation into allegations of extrajudicial killings by members of UK Special Forces in Afghanistan.
Published: 24 Mar 2026
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Documents relating to the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI), an independent body appointed by the Home Secretary and responsible ‘for monitoring and reporting on the efficiency and effectiveness of the UK’s immigration, asylum, nationality and customs functions.’
Latest document added: 17 Dec 2025
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Annual reports, correspondence and other material relating to the work of the Intelligence Commissioners, including the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office and its predecessors.
Latest document added: 17 Dec 2025
Project archive
Over 500 documents from a range of sources, representing the largest collection of publicly available material relating to UK involvement in the war in Yemen.
Latest document added: 16 Dec 2025
Collection
Final and interim reports by UK public inquiries established to examine a range of national security, defence and human rights issues.
Latest document added: 6 Oct 2025
Collection
A growing collection of UK legislation, from the nineteenth century to the present day, spanning a range of areas which touch upon national security.
Latest document added: 12 Jun 2025
Briefing
Our investigation has established beyond reasonable doubt that Britain has been deeply and directly involved in the rendition, secret detention and torture of prisoners in the ‘war on terror’. This briefing provides an overview of that involvement.
Published: 8 Jun 2025
Collection
A growing collection of documents from within the CIA torture programme, including memos, internal reports and cables from a number of secret prisons (black sites) where detainees were held outside the law and subjected to systematic torture.
Published: 6 Jun 2025
Collection
A collection of air traffic control records, billing documents and other forms of flight data, collected by The Rendition Project during its investigation into the CIA torture programme.
Published: 6 Jun 2025
Collection
Documents relating to the public inquiry established to investigate the torture and death of Baha Mousa by British troops in Basra, September 2003.
Published: 6 May 2025
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Documents relating to the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) examination of alleged war crimes by British forces in Iraq between 2003 and 2009.
Published: 6 May 2025
Collection
Documents relating to the Iraq Historic Allegations Team, established in 2010 to investigate allegations of unlawful killings and ill-treatment of Iraqi civilians by UK service personnel.
Published: 6 May 2025
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Documents relating to legal cases arising from the UK’s war in Iraq.
Published: 6 May 2025
Collection
Documents relating to the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Act, including those from the passage of the Bill, and the public reaction to its formulation.
Published: 6 May 2025
Collection
Documents relating to the Service Police Legacy Investigations (SPLI), an investigative body that examined allegations by Iraqi civilians of serious criminal behaviour by British forces.
Published: 6 May 2025
Collection
Documents from proceedings at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) which led to the disclosure of a secret government policy allowing MI5 officials to authorise their agents to commit criminal acts in the United Kingdom.
Published: 28 Apr 2025
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Briefing
Documents revealing the long history of MI5 ‘authorising’ their informants to commit crime, with official guidance providing no meaningful limits on the types of crime authorised, or on the scale of involvement by MI5 officers and informants.
Published: 28 Apr 2025
Collection
A collection of declassified documents from the 1940s and 1950s, relating to the organisation of Australian signals intelligence during the immediate postwar period and the gradual integration of Australia into the UKUSA Agreement which underpins Five Eyes intelligence sharing.
Published: 28 Apr 2025
Collection
Documents declassified by GCHQ and the US National Security Agency in 2010, relating to the establishment of US-UK intelligence sharing agreements in the postwar era.
Published: 28 Apr 2025
Collection
A collection of documents relating to the UKUSA Agreement and the development of Five Eyes intelligence sharing practices, released following a US freedom of information challenge by Privacy International.
Published: 28 Apr 2025
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Briefing
An overview of the early development of the UKUSA Agreement, a broad framework which emerged from a series of postwar signals intelligence sharing agreements to form the basis of the Five Eyes alliance.
Published: 28 Apr 2025
Collection
A collection of documents underpinning the Civilian Protection Monitor’s (CPM) analysis of the UK, US, and the Netherlands’ protection-related policies and practices.
Latest document added: 24 Apr 2025
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Briefing
An overview of 26 separate UK Special Forces operations which resulted in the killing of at least 84 Afghan boys and men, including children as young as 12. Many of these appear to have been war crimes.
Published: 19 Feb 2024
Briefing
A briefing exploring contemporaneous knowledge among senior UK Special Forces officers of what appears to have been the systematic unlawful killings by SAS units in Afghanistan and the fabricated reporting designed to cover up these crimes.
Published: 19 Feb 2024
Briefing
Documents that make clear the extent to which senior officers in UK Special Forces were aware of potential systematic war crimes in Afghanistan, as well as suspicion among Royal Military Police investigators that evidence was subsequently covered up.
Published: 19 Feb 2024
Collection
Documents relating to the official Inquiry into allegations of war crimes committed by Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2016, which concluded that there had been at least 23 incidents involving 39 unlawful killings.
Published: 19 Feb 2024
Collection
A collection of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reports on the protection of civilians and the treatment of conflict-related detainees in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2021.
Published: 19 Feb 2024
