The UK government should not be hosting Mohammed bin Salman
The UK government will be hosting Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman this autumn. The Crown Prince is the architect of the war on Yemen, which has killed thousands of people and led to one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. US intelligence agencies concluded that bin Salman approved the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi. His regime tortures and executes dissidents, most recently sentencing someone to death for tweets against corruption in the country. The government should not be laying out the red carpet for MBS and should in fact cut off all relations and stop arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
Join us on September 27th at 6pm outside Downing Street to call on the UK government to cancel the visit and work to hold MBS to account for his human rights abuses and orchestration of the war on Yemen. This visit sends the wrong message and it must be stopped. Full details here and you can also share the Facebook event.
Join the resistance to the DSEI arms fair
The DSEI arms fair is back in east London this month and so is the resistance to it. Military delegations from human-rights abusing regimes such as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Israel will be networking with arms companies and doing deals that will lead to more death and destruction globally. This is where war starts but also where we can try and stop it.
There are a range of action against the fair, covering both the fair’s set up week and the week of the fair itself – the protests will last from September 4th to 15th. There is a peace pilgrimage from Oxford to the site of the fair starting on September 5th, Palestine Solidarity Campaign have organised a Stop DSEI vigil on September 5th, a festival of resistance is taking place on September 9th and there is a Migrant Justice day on September 12th. This is just a flavour of the actions taking place – check out the Stop the Arms Fair website for more details.