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Peace activists announced plans yesterday to privately prosecute two international arms dealers who exhibited illegal torture equipment at the 2013 DSEI arms fair in London.
Stop the Arms Fair campaigners have launched a legal bid against French firm Magforce International and Beijing-based Tianjin MyWay International Trading for promoting illegal equipment including leg irons and stun batons for sale.
Both companies were expelled from the fair after activists and Green Party MP Caroline Lucas brought it to the attention of Parliament and the organiser that the firms were advertising products forbidden under British law.
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
