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CAAT challenge UK government over failure to revoke arms exports to Saudi Arabia

Categories: Articles:Peace & Disarmament | Published: 30/06/2011 | Views: 199
Lawyers acting on behalf of Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) have written to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) laying out their intention to request a judicial review of his department's failure to revoke any licences for the export of military equipment to Saudi Arabia, despite evidence that UK-manufactured armoured vehicles have been deployed by the Saudi government in Bahrain to help suppress democracy protesters. The UK government's export licensing criteria states that it will "not issue an export licence if there is a clear risk that the proposed export might be used for internal repression".

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