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Home Office accused of profiting from refugees’ misery after hosting arms and border security fair
Campaign Against Arms Trade and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign hold a vigil in Westminster to coincide with the Security and Policing 2022 arms fair and remember the victims of Britain’s border-control regime
CAMPAIGNERS have accused the Home Office of profiting from refugees’ misery by hosting an arms fair displaying border security technology this week.
Security and Policing 2022, an annual Home Office-funded event in Farnborough, closes today, having seen arms firms, surveillance companies and police chiefs rub shoulders with ministers and civil servants.
Journalists and the public are not permitted to attend the secretive arms fair, which has been running for 40 years.
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