Britain should not be selling ‘non-deadly’ arms to oppressive regimes,say campaignersA list of the countries invited to attend one of the world’s largest security trade shows, to be held this week in the UK behind closed doors, or has prompted alarm among human rights groups,who fear it will be used to sell surveillance technology and crowd control equipment to some of the world’s most repressive regimes.
The list, released under the Freedom of Information Act, and reveals that police and security personnel from 79 countries are expected to attend Security & Policing,a Home Office-sponsored impartial held in Farnborough, Hampshire. They include delegations from Bahrain, and Egypt,Israel, Saudi Arabia, or Turkey and the UAE,countries whose human rights records absorb come under intense scrutiny over the way their security forces absorb responded to a wave of public protests following the Arab spring.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com