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Saudi arms sales: UK government accused of ‘delay tactics’ over files

INTERNATIONAL The UK Department of International Trade (DIT) has been accused of using "delaying tactics" after twice telling Middle East Eye it needs more time to decide whether releasing information about British weapons sales to Saudi Arabia is in the public interest. Campaigners argue that the information should be released because members of the public should know how government decisions to sell arms to the Gulf kingdom at the height […]

3 September 2022

Local

UK activists occupy Israel weapons manufacturer’s client

Palestine Action have today occupying Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit System's client the Good Packing Company, who package, transport and export Israeli weapons battle tested on the Palestinian people. Four activists scaled the company's rooftop in protest at its ties to the deadly arms manufacturer, especially as Palestinians in Gaza have spent three days under Israeli bombardment. Activists dismantled the site's CCTV, struck out at windows with sledgehammers, and coated the site in paint, a statement from […]

9 August 2022

International

Saudi Arabia: Hajj packages for UK pilgrims won’t be ‘Atol’ protected

INTERNATIONAL Saudi Arabia has confirmed that its proposed Hajj packages for western pilgrims will not be protected by the Air Travel Organisers' Licensing (Atol) scheme for British pilgrims hoping to perform the pilgrimage this year. The Haramain Twitter account, which tweets on behalf of Saudi Arabia's holy sites in Mecca and Medina, confirmed the situation on Wednesday. "Pilgrims will not be Atol protected as is currently the case for UK pilgrims," the Haramain said. = […]

9 June 2022

International

UK’s charity regulator urged to investigate Policy Exchange over ‘anti-Muslim agenda’

INTERNATIONAL The UK’s charities regulator is being urged to investigate the Policy Exchange think tank for alleged racism and Islamophobia, over a report in which it accused Muslim critics of the government’s Prevent strategy of “enabling terrorism”. In a letter to the Charity Commission, the authors of a critical review of the UK government’s controversial counterterrorism strategy called on the government to review the think tank's charitable status, accusing it of “promoting vilification and even […]

12 May 2022

International News

‘Do something practical’: New Palestinian justice centre launched in UK

The founders of a new Palestinian legal centre based in the UK say they will use the law where politics has failed to bring justice and accountability for Palestinians. The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), which launched in London on Wednesday, brings together lawyers, UK politicians and academics who will coordinate legal work in jurisdictions around the world to protect Palestinian rights. Just weeks after Israel's latest assault […]

10 June 2021

Local

SA should remain on high alert over circulating COVID-19 variants: Mlisana

Ministerial Advisory Committee Co-chairperson, Koleka Mlisana, says South Africa should remain on high alert regarding the coronavirus variants circulating both in the country and abroad. The death toll from COVID–19 related complications in South Africa is approaching 55 000. There are concerns that the country could experience a substantial third wave of the virus. Mlisana says it’s important for people not to drop their guard against the coronavirus. The Department of Health has confirmed that variants of the COVID-19 virus […]

10 May 2021

International News

UK festival not returning to Abu Dhabi over sexual assault claims

Britain’s Hay Festival will not return to Abu Dhabi until the United Arab Emirates’ tolerance minister will remain in his post following allegations of sexual assault by one of the literary event’s curators. Hay Festival chief Caroline Michel released a statement on Sunday after Caitlin McNamara alleged she was attacked in February by Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, 69, a member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling family, the Sunday Times […]

19 October 2020

International News

UK government probing cyber-attack over Syria propaganda leaks

MEE EXCLUSIVE: Hackers have penetrated the computer systems of the UK’s foreign ministry and taken hundreds of files detailing the country’s controversial propaganda programmes in war-torn Syria. In a security breach of enormous proportions, the hackers appear to have deliberately targeted files that set out the financial and operational relationships between the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and a network of private-sector contractors that have been covertly running media […]

29 September 2020

International News

Activists claim UK arms sale to Saudi increased after court ruling it unlawful

Arms sales to Saudi Arabia may have continued – and even increased – after they were ruled unlawful, MPs have been told, reported the Mirror. More than 5,000 deliveries of weapons to Saudi Arabia were made under “open licences” in 2019, despite the UK government agreeing to pause new export licences to the kingdom just over a year ago following a court of appeal ruling that UK arms export to […]

4 September 2020

UK

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