{"id":6590,"date":"2018-10-24T15:07:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T15:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/6590-france-must-halt-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-amnesty-international\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T15:07:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T15:07:39","slug":"france-must-halt-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-amnesty-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/6590-france-must-halt-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-amnesty-international\/","title":{"rendered":"France must halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia: Amnesty International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International has once again called on France to suspend its arms sales to Saudi Arabia, due to Riyadh&#8217;s war crimes in Yemen and the display of its disrespect for human rights.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Amnesty International has once again called on France to suspend its arms sales to Saudi Arabia, due to Riyadh&#8217;s war crimes in Yemen and the display of its disrespect for human rights.<\/h4>\n<h4>Director of Amnesty International France&#8217;s Program for Responsibility, Yves Prigent, said on Tuesday that a number of serious human rights violations, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, have been observed since the beginning of the conflict in Yemen in 2015.<\/h4>\n<h4>Amnesty International France has long been calling on France to halt arms sales to the Saudis, on account of Paris being a signatory of the Arms Trade Treaty, which regulates the international trade in conventional arms.<\/h4>\n<h4>France is one of the five biggest arms exporters to Saudi Arabia in past years, Amnesty International said, in the same category as the United States and Britain. 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