"Torture, grossly unfair trials and the use of the death penalty are rampant in Saudi Arabia, while reckless Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Yemen are causing endless death and destruction,” Hogarth said in a statement.
"The security of those Yemeni civilians, who are being killed and injured by these reckless air strikes, must be on the agenda,” Hogarth added, “whatever deals Mrs May secures during her time in Riyadh, there should be one business arrangement that is immediately suspended – the sale of all UK arms to Saudi Arabia that could be used to carry out yet more atrocities in Yemen.”
Saudi Arabia has been bombing Yemen since March 2015 to reinstate former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and crush the Houthi movement.
The campaign has killed over 12,000 people including many women and children.
“With civilian deaths in Yemen mounting ever higher, ministers should long ago have halted arms sales to Saudi Arabia – instead they’ve buried their heads in the sand,” Amnesty’s Hogarth concluded.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
