{"id":71355,"date":"2020-12-02T14:28:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T14:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=71355"},"modified":"2020-12-05T15:13:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T15:13:11","slug":"u-s-arms-sales-to-uae-draw-fire-from-29-rights-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/71355-u-s-arms-sales-to-uae-draw-fire-from-29-rights-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. arms sales to UAE draw fire from 29 rights groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-02_18-50-59-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-02_18-50-59-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-02_18-50-59-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-02_18-50-59-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-02_18-50-59-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-02_18-50-59.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty-nine arms control and human rights organizations have signed a letter opposing the sale of $23 billion worth of missiles, fighter jets and drones to the United Arab Emirates and asking the U.S. Congress to block the deal.<br>\u201cThe hope is to stop these sales altogether,\u201d said Seth Binder, advocacy officer at the Project on Middle East Democracy, who spearheaded the effort. \u201cBut if that is not possible in the short term, this sends an important signal to the incoming Biden administration that there is a diverse group of organizations that oppose delivery of these weapons.\u201d<br>The letter from the rights groups, sent to lawmakers and the State Department, said the planned arms sale would fuel continued harm to civilians and exacerbate humanitarian crises due to conflicts in Yemen and Libya.<br>Signatories include human rights organizations from the region, including the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and Mwatana for Human Rights.<br>The UAE embassy said in a statement, \u201cAligned closely with US interests and values, the UAE\u2019s highly capable military is a forceful deterrent to aggression and an effective response to violent extremism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-nine arms control and human rights organizations have signed a letter opposing the sale of $23 billion worth of missiles, fighter jets and drones to the United Arab Emirates and asking the U.S. Congress to block the deal.\u201cThe hope is to stop these sales altogether,\u201d said Seth Binder, advocacy officer at the Project on Middle &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":71462,"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":[7,31],"tags":[701,440,81],"class_list":["post-71355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","category-news","tag-arms","tag-fire","tag-uae"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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