CAAT launches fresh legal action against government's renewed arm sales to Saudi Arabia
CAAT campaigners outside the Court of Appeal in April 2019
by Bethany Rielly
THE government is facing new legal action over arms exports to Saudi Arabia after ministers decided to renew sales earlier this year.
Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) announced today that it has filed a judicial review application into the legality of ministers’ decision to renew arms exports to the Saudi-led coalition that is bombing Yemen.
The campaign group claims that the weapons are being used to “fuel destruction and prolong the conflict” in Yemen where six-years of conflict have resulted in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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