{"id":259856,"date":"2021-08-01T16:09:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T16:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=189914"},"modified":"2021-08-01T16:09:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T16:09:40","slug":"craig-murrays-jailing-is-the-national-security-states-latest-assault-on-independent-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/01\/craig-murrays-jailing-is-the-national-security-states-latest-assault-on-independent-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Murray\u2019s Jailing Is The National Security State\u2019s Latest Assault On Independent Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Murray\u2019s imprisonment for eight months by Lady Dorrian, Scotland\u2019s second most senior judge, is of course based entirely on a keen reading of Scottish law rather than evidence of the Scottish and London political establishments seeking revenge on the former diplomat. And the UK supreme court\u2019s refusal on Thursday to hear Murray\u2019s appeal despite many glaring legal anomalies in the case, thereby paving his path to jail, is equally rooted in a strict application of the law, and not influenced in any way by political considerations.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/craig-murrays-jailing-is-the-national-security-states-latest-assault-on-independent-journalism\/\">Craig Murray\u2019s Jailing Is The National Security State\u2019s Latest Assault On Independent Journalism<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/craig-murrays-jailing-is-the-national-security-states-latest-assault-on-independent-journalism\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murray\u2019s imprisonment for eight months by Lady Dorrian, Scotland\u2019s second most senior judge, is of course based entirely on a keen reading of Scottish law rather than evidence of the Scottish and London political establishments seeking revenge on the f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,25575,5722,474,200],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259857,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259856\/revisions\/259857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}