Arms trade

Latest headlines from The Ferret about the global trade in arms and weapons.

Human rights, Arms trade

University urged to end Saudi deal after rise in beheadings

Billy Briggs on April 24, 2020April 26, 2020

A Scottish university has been condemned for a secretive contract with Saudi Arabia after a report that the Gulf state executed 184 people last year.

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Arms trade

UK arms deals with Egypt condemned after report reveals regime’s child torture

Billy Briggs on April 5, 2020April 6, 2020

The UK government and arms firms based in Scotland were condemned in a Human Rights Watch report for selling weapons to an Egyptian regime that tortures children by waterboarding and electrocution.

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Arms trade, Human rights

Radar funded by Scottish Enterprise marketed to regimes abusing human rights

Billy Briggs on March 11, 2020March 11, 2020

A radar funded by Scottish Enterprise was marketed to countries with poor records on human rights at one of the world's largest arms fairs.

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Arms trade, Human rights

Saudi-led forces face trials over alleged war crimes linked to Fife arms firm

Billy Briggs on February 20, 2020February 20, 2020

Since the Yemen war began in 2015, war crime allegations have been linked to bombs made by US arms firm Raytheon, which has a factory in Fife.

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Arms trade, International

‘New processes’ for illegal Saudi arms sales, says minister

Billy Briggs on February 7, 2020February 7, 2020

The UK government says "new processes" have been established to prevent unlawful arms sales to Saudi Arabia after it emerged a court ruling had been violated several times.

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Arms trade, Human rights, International

Scottish school children targeted by arms firm allegedly complicit in war crimes

Billy Briggs on January 21, 2020January 22, 2020

Leonardo is targeting school leavers to work on Typhoon jets which have been used by the Saudis in Yemen's conflict.

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Politics, Arms trade

UK tried “diplomatic blackmail” to force Mandela to buy Scottish warships

Joe Lo on January 16, 2020January 16, 2020

In 1995 the UK Conservative government threatened to cut back naval co-operation with Nelson Mandela's South Africa unless it bought Scottish warships.

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Arms trade, International

Arms firms executives could face investigation for complicity in war crimes

Billy Briggs on December 12, 2019January 22, 2020

Executives of a US arms firm which makes smart bombs in Fife could face investigation for potentially aiding and abetting alleged war crimes in Yemen by a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia.

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Arms trade, Human rights, International

Arms firms in Scotland profit from walls to keep out asylum seekers

Billy Briggs on November 5, 2019January 22, 2020

Arms firms in Scotland given taxpayers' money are profiting from border security contracts in Europe designed to keep out asylum seekers.

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Fergus Ewing is ‘un-ministerial’, says civil service union

Written by Rob Edwards

Seal shooting by fish farms to be banned to save exports to US

Written by Rob Edwards

Claim Holyrood meets once a week during lockdown is false

Written by Ferret Journalists

Fergus Ewing attacked over 25 meetings with fish farm firms

Written by Rob Edwards