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The Stop The Shipment campaign, launched two months ago with the support of Campaign Against Arms Trade to prevent a massive shipment of tear gas to Bahrain, has succeeded in its campaign to stop DAPA, South Korea's arms export licensing agency, from allowing the sale of millions of canisters of tear gas to Bahrain.

Activists in Seoul have drawn on some of the actions we had organised at DSEI - and improved them! South Korean activists even used some of the same slogans so that if any arms dealers who had been at DSEI also went to Seoul, they would know that “we are everywhere”.

It is unacceptable for Comic Relief to have invested millions of pounds in a company which profits from insecurity and human rights abuse.

Arms dealers access to the site was somewhat impeded by the protest Companies attending Wednesday’s ‘Defence, Procurement, Research, Technology and Exportation’ event were greeted by queues trailing back along the A4174 as protesters blocked the UWE North Entrance. One gate was eventually locked and attendees forced to use

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has condemned the Foreign Affairs Committee's new report on UK's relations with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain as a whitewash.

Despite mounting concerns about human rights abuses, David Cameron continues to promote UK weapons sales in the Gulf atates.

Following BAE's announcement of further job cuts affecting workers in Portsmouth and Glasgow, Campaign Against Arms Trade has called for the Government to shift public money and political support from the military to other engineering sectors.

Protesters arrested for taking action against an international arms fair in London have vowed to defend their right to challenge the arms trade.