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UK signed largest single arms licence on record to Egypt as British-Egyptian political prisoner remains arbitrarily detained
In December 2023 the largest single arms licence to Egypt on record was issued for military radars worth £79,347,022. Since British national and writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah was detained in September 2019 the UK has licensed at least £237 million worth of arms to Egypt. Alaa’s mother, Laila Soueif, has been on hunger
No Warmongers in our Capital: Edinburgh CAAT to take action at EICC
On Monday, the SPIE Security and Defence 2024 arms industry conference, will open at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, amidst protests and opposition from Edinburgh city councillors and the local community.
Government exempts F-35 from export licence suspension – on same day evidence emerges Israel used it in attack on Gaza ‘safe zone’
The Danish news outlet Information, together with NGO Danwatch, revealed today that, for the first time, it has been possible to definitively confirm the use by Israel of an F-35 stealth fighter to carry out a specific attack in Gaza. The UK arms industry produces 15% of every F-35 made, including Israel’s 39 aircraft.
Press Release: Campaigners blockade Bristol arms fair for two days over its complicity in Israel’s genocide
“This week people showed clearly that they will not stand by and let arms dealers meet in Bristol, and they will not be complicit in genocide"
Joint letter to the UK Government calling for an immediate halt to arms exports to Israel
Rt Hon Lord David Cameron, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, London SW1A 2AH CC: Secretary of State for Business and Trade Kemi Badenoch, and Minister of State for Development and Africa Andrew Mitchell From: UK-based civil society groups working in and on the Occupied Palestinian Territory
UK government invites some of the world’s worst human rights abusing nations to buy weapons at London arms fair
The list of countries invited to this year's DSEI shows this government's utter disdain for human rights around the world.
Over 40 Israeli arms companies among world’s worst arms dealers setting up shop at the London arms fair
Israel is an apartheid state, and it is disgusting that the UK is not only selling weapons to Israel but encouraging Israeli arms companies to sell their weapons in London.
