page_title: Craig Murray
hierarchical_section_title: Craig Murray
caption_attribution_description: English: en:Craig Murray delivers an address on September 23, 2006 aboard a Peace Train on the subject of Afghanistan.
context_page_description: Craig John Murray is a British former diplomat turned political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger and whistleblower.
  Between 2002 and 2004, he was the British ambassador to Uzbekistan during which time he exposed the violations of human rights in Uzbekistan by the Karimov administration. This led to conflict with his superiors in the Foreign Office until finally he was removed from the post. Specifically, Murray complained to the Foreign Office repeatedly that intelligence received by the Central Intelligence Agency from the Uzbek government was unreliable because it had been obtained through torture, as was later confirmed by European investigators.
  Subsequently he became a political activist, campaigning for human rights and for transparency in global politics as well as for the independence of Scotland. Between 2007 and 2010 he was the elected Rector of the University of Dundee.
  His books include Sikunder Burnes: Master of the Great Game, The Catholic Orangemen of Togo, and a memoir Murder in Samarkand.
context_section_description: Craig John Murray (born 17 October 1958) is a British former diplomat turned political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger and whistleblower.
  Between 2002 and 2004, he was the British ambassador to Uzbekistan during which time he exposed the violations of human rights in Uzbekistan by the Karimov administration. This led to conflict with his superiors in the Foreign Office until finally he was removed from the post. Specifically, Murray complained to the Foreign Office repeatedly that intelligence received by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from the Uzbek government was unreliable because it had been obtained through torture, as was later confirmed by European investigators.
  Subsequently he became a political activist, campaigning for human rights and for transparency in global politics as well as for the independence of Scotland. Between 2007 and 2010 he was the elected Rector of the University of Dundee.
  His books include Sikunder Burnes: Master of the Great Game (2016), The Catholic Orangemen of Togo (2009), and a memoir Murder in Samarkand (2006).
caption: Craig Murray delivers an address on 23 September 2006 aboard a Peace Train on the subject of Afghanistan.
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