6 December 2021|The Dissenter|Mohamed Elmaazi
In an exclusive interview one day after his release from prison, Craig Murray describes surviving a COVID outbreak and why he is not done challenging his conviction for blog posts.
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“There was a major COVID outbreak in the prison in the last 6 weeks of my incarceration,” Murray recalled. While COVID was present in the prison throughout his stay there, Murray said that between October 20 and November 20, “there were more than 200 positive tests for COVID in the jail.”
“That’s 200 out of a population of 900,” he added, emphasizing that all of these prisoners would have been symptomatic. (Prisoners who weren’t symptomatic were not tested.)
“Extraordinarily, when the Scottish government was urging the entire population to test themselves with PCR tests* twice a week, whether they had symptoms or not,” it was difficult in the prison to get a test.
On December 1, one day after his release from prison, Murray spoke in an exclusive interview to The Dissenter. He was the first journalist to be imprisoned for media contempt of court in Scotland in over 70 years, according to his defense team.
Read the full article here: https://thedissenter.org/exclusive-whistleblower-craig-murray-experience-scottish-prison/
* Mr Murray spoke in error, the public are being encouraged to test themselves with lateral flow tests twice a week