{"id":4434,"date":"2017-07-10T05:57:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T05:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/4434-uk-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-under-threat-as-court-ruling-on-terrorism-looms\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T05:57:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T05:57:21","slug":"uk-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-under-threat-as-court-ruling-on-terrorism-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/4434-uk-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-under-threat-as-court-ruling-on-terrorism-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia under threat as court ruling on terrorism looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain will be forced to suspend the sale of what potentially could be billions of pounds worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia if it loses a high-profile legal case on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Britain will be forced to suspend the sale of what potentially could be billions of pounds worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia if it loses a high-profile legal case on Monday.<\/h4>\n<h4>The high court is due to give its verdict in a judicial review that puts arms sales export policy in the dock and has the potential to embarrass the government.<\/h4>\n<h4>Verdict due on Monday over humanitarian challenge claiming weapons may have been used to kill civilians in Yemen.<\/h4>\n<h4>The ruling comes at a crucial time for bilateral relations. The government has been accused of burying a report into the funding of terrorism in the UK that is believed to be particularly critical of Saudi Arabia, the largest buyer of British arms. The UK has licensed more than \u00a33bn of arms to Saudi Arabia in the last two years alone.<\/h4>\n<h4>Since 2015, the kingdom has waged a bombing campaign against Yemen, where thousands of civilians have been killed.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain will be forced to suspend the sale of what potentially could be billions of pounds worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia if it loses a high-profile legal case on Monday. \u00a0 Britain will be forced to suspend the sale of what potentially could be billions of pounds worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia if &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[121,670,38,307],"class_list":["post-4434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-britain","tag-kill","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-weapons"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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