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Britain used secretive system to sell arms to Saudi, probe finds Friday, 16 July 2021 1:26 AM
[ Last Update: Friday, 16 July 2021 1:26 AM ]
Saeed Pourreza
Press TV, London
A UK-based organization working to end the international arms trade has revealed that Britain’s weapons exports to Saudi Arabia since the 2015 start of the war in Yemen has been three times more than previously thought. The Campaign Against The Arms Trade says the British government has used a secretive licensing system to continue selling arms to Riyadh despite credible evidence of war crimes committed by the kingdom.
In 2019, following a campaign by antiwar activists, a British court of appeal ruled weapons sales to Saudi Arabia unlawful, and accused government officials of illegally signing off on a secret arms deal in 2016 without properly assessing the risk to civilians. One of the signatories- Prime Minister Boris Johnson- UK Foreign Secretary at