Saudi protesters executed with British weapons? Foreign Office remains tightlipped
‘Responding to inquiries by members of parliament, the Foreign Office neither confirmed nor denied whether British weapons had been used in the mass execution of protesters in Saudi Arabia last month.
The Gulf Kingdom executed 47 people, including Shiite cleric Nimr-al-Nimr and dozens of anti-government protesters, in early January. After hundreds of Shiites took to the streets of Iran in protest over the executions, Riyadh responded by severing diplomatic ties with the country.
In a letter on January 4 to Prime Minister David Cameron, Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake called on the PM for “assurances that no weapons or any other materials made in the United Kingdom were used to prepare or carry out the executions.”’
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