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while Assange, who exposed war crimes,faces extradition & lifetime in prison.” Petition to revoke Tony Blair’s knighthood hits 1m signatures/Labor MP Burgon:”Says a lot about what’s wrong w/our system when 1 of leading architects of Iraq war.is honoured. Queen Elizabeth II announced Blair’s knighthood on New Year’s Eve. As of Friday it hit one million signatures. Citing his role in the Iraq War and other devastating conflicts, hundreds of thousands of people in the United Kingdom and beyond are calling for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to be stripped of his newly bestowed knighthood.Īs of Thursday afternoon, over 900,000 people had signed the petition seeking to have Blair’s "Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter" – one of the highest honors a British monarch can bestow upon a subject – rescinded.
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