UK broke law on Saudi arms exports due to Yemen concerns, court rules

Demonstrators react outside the Court of Appeal in London after the result in a court case regarding the judgment of a legal battle by campaigners to challenge the UK government’s decision to grant licences for the export of arms to Saudi Arabia. June 20, 2019.

While the court's decision does not mean Britain must immediately halt arms exports, it does mean that there is a stay on the granting of next arms export licences to Saudi Arabia, Britain's richest Arab ally. He added that the government made "no concluded assessments of whether the Saudi-led coalition had committed violations of international humanitarian law in the past, during the Yemen conflict.""The decision of the court today does not mean that licences to export arms to Saudi Arabia must immediately be suspended," he said.

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