UK cancelled £5.9m Saudi Arabia prisons contract, but did just sell them £4bn in arms
by Bethan McKernan
The human rights situation in Saudi Arabia is dire and the UK government has repeatedly failed to say or do anything about it.
Earlier this year David Cameron faced criticism for fawning tributes after the death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who awarded him the King Abdullah Decoration One three years ago.
THE UK government has been praised for scrapping a contract to run services in the Saudi Arabian prison service.
There had been widespread criticism of the £5.9m deal because of Saudi Arabia’s appalling human rights record and excessively cruel penal system.
In the past few months, Saudi Arabia has sentenced blogger Raif Badawi to ten years in prison and 500 lashes, and Arab Spring protester Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, who was a teen when he was arrested, to be beheaded and crucified.
While the UK has moved to distance itself from Saudi Arabia’s horrific treatment of its people in one regard, the government hasn’t been so keen to shout about our other dealings with the oppressive kingdom.
Between May 2010 – March 2015, the coalition government licensed almost £4billion of arms to Saudi Arabia, and according to a Parliamentary Committee on Arms Export Controls report from earlier this year, the equipment included:
- fighter jets
- machine guns, sniper rifles and pistols
- crowd control ammunition
- intelligence and cryptography equipment
- hand grenades
- tear gas
…and many, many more items.
The Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) says this equipment is being used to kill civilians as Saudi Arabia becomes increasingly involved in the conflict in Yemen.
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