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20 Jun 2019

UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia ‘unlawful’

Special Correspondent and Presenter

The government is to halt the granting of new licences to export arms to Saudi Arabia for the time being after a Court of Appeal ruling that it had not followed the correct legal procedure in the past.

The Campaign Against Arms Trade had argued that export licences should not have been granted, as there was a clear risk that the arms might be used in the conflict in Yemen.