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Thank you for the link >"... Murray’s jailing has nothing to do with the fact that he embarrassed the British state in the early 2000s by becoming that rarest of things: a whistleblowing diplomat. He exposed the British government’s collusion, along with the US, in Uzbekistan’s torture regime.

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The number of political prisoners in 'Western democracies' is growing by the hour, it seems.

Certainly that number is still, far less than in many other countries, but what does the slope look like, and what should be the reference point ?