Protest against Saudi Crown Prince visit planned as poll finds only 6 per cent of UK support arms sales to Saudi Arabia

THE STOP THE WAR COALITION will hold a demonstration outside Downing Street on Wednesday (6 March) in protest against the arrival of Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.

There have been 14 reported arrests during a Trident Ploughshares protest against the DSEI arms fair

TWO SCOTTISH ACTIVISTS were among those arrested during a protest by the non-violent anti-Trident campaign group Trident Ploughshares ahead of the Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI), the world’s biggest arms trade fair.

The arrests took place as Trident Ploughshares blocked an access road to the ExCel Centre in London’s Docklands in anticipation of the DSEI, which will run from 12-15 September.

Anti-war activists attempt to disarm UK-Saudi planes as May puts Turkey and Gulf monarchies at heart of her post-Brexit trade strategy

A PAIR OF ACTIVISTS who tried to disarm BAE fighter jets headed for Saudi Arabia at the weekend have been released on bail today (Monday 30 January).

Daniel Woodhouse, a Methodist minister from Leeds and Sam Walton a Quaker activist have both been released on bail pending charges after breaking into British Aerospace Engineering’s (BAE) Warton warehouse.

Millions of foreign office funds go to failed training of authoritarian police force

THE human rights charity Reprieve have condemned the UK foreign office and Northern Irish (NI) police forces for helping to train Bahrain’s police on how to tell bereaved families that officers would not be prosecuted after loved ones have died in custody.

UK has licensed £2.8bn worth of arms to Saudi dictatorship since it began bombing Yemen

ANTI-ARMS TRADE campaigners have been granted a judicial review into a UK Government department’s decision to continue selling weapons to Saudi Arabia during its bombardment of Yemen.

The decision was made in favour of an application by Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) by the English High Court to allow the investigation into the secretary of state for business, innovation and skills’ decision to continue arms exports worth £2.8bn to the Gulf dictatorship.

Ongoing investigation upturns investments in world’s leading arms manufacturers

COMMON WEAL SOUTH LANARKSHIRE has released information from a series of wide-ranging Freedom of Information (FoI) requests which unveil the extent of investment in arms companies by Scottish council authorities.

Nine Scottish councils, including Glasgow City Council (GCC), Edinburgh City Council (ECC) and Highland Council are directly invested in some of the world’s leading arms manufacturers.

Demo at Saudi Arabian embassy will protest UK arms sales amid humanitarian crisis

CAMPAIGN AGAINST ARMS TRADE (CAAT) will hold a protest outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in London on 3 February in opposition to the UK Government’s continued sale of arms to Saudi Arabia which are being used in its war against Yemen.

The UK has sold over £4.7bn worth of weapons to the Saudi Arabian regime since the war started in March 2015. The UN has described the conflict as a humanitarian crisis and that Saudi Arabia breached international law with airstrikes in Yemen.