Submitted on Friday 19th June 2020
Rejected on Thursday 16th July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
End UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia
With COVID-19 further crippling Yemen, our government must act decisively and stop our complicity by ending supplying arms to Saudi Arabia to avoid further bloodshed.
Germany has suspended arms sales, now Britain must do the same.
In 2019, the Court of Appeal stated that British arms sales to Saudi Arabia were unlawful. However, the UK continues to be ‘complicit in committing war crimes in Yemen by selling weapons and providing support to the Saudi led coalition which is using the deliberate starvation of civilians as a tactic of warfare’ according to a 2019 UN report. Unicef has declared the Yemen famine as the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, with over 80% of the population requiring humanitarian assistance.
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