UK Government announces suspension on new arms sales that can be used by Turkish forces in Syria UK has licensed £1.1 billion worth of arms sales to Turkey since August 2014
Ban must also affect existing licences, not just future sales…
Marking the 102nd Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration on Saturday, Senior Palestinian Official, Dr. Saeb Erekat said Britain has the responsibility to make a qualitative shift towards realizing the political rights of the people of…
Unsolved crime – the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group Coordinator Anna Sereni writes on what we learned from monitoring the UK’s anti-slavery efforts for the last decade.
We are now just one week away from the end of Julian Assange’s uniquely lengthy imprisonment for bail violation. He will receive parole from the rest of that sentence, but will continue to be imprisoned on remand awaiting his hearing on…
U.K. security services targeted The Guardian after the newspaper started publishing the contents of secret U.S. government documents leaked by National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in June 2013.
Snowden’s bombshell…
Next month the ExCel Centre in East London will be hosting one of the world’s largest arms fairs, the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) fair. DSEI, now in its 20th year, pays a visit to Newham every two years. The 2017…
The use of “watch lists” to harass dissidents and journalists—as well as Muslims—appears to be growing, as the author discovered when he recently got caught in the net.