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EU under mounting pressure to ban arms sales to Saudi Arabia

Four political groups in European parliament urge EU foreign policy chief to propose arms embargo [...]

Bahrain’s Six Years of Dangerous Decline

Civilians are being tried by military courts again in Bahrain. With depressing symmetry, Bahrain put four [...]

UK’s Middle East Minister Whitewashes Bahrain Human Rights Record In Visit, Contradicting UN and Amnesty Findings

19 October 2017 – Middle East Minister Alistair Burt praised Bahrain in a visit to [...]

Saudi Arabia is executing teenagers for using social media – you call that ‘reform’?

Some juveniles are facing the death penalty for using Whatsapp and Facebook to organise protests. [...]

When Saudi Arabia’s Shia citizens are dying from gunshot wounds, the UN must ask questions

Today, United Nations Day, marks 72 years since the UN’s creation. Sitting tall these days at [...]

UK sales of arms and military kit to Saudi Arabia hit £1.1bn in 2017

Department for International Trade statistics prompt accusations of ‘shameful profiteering’ from conflict in Yemen British [...]