Petition updateSuspend UK export of tear gas, rubber bullets and riot shields to USAParliamentary petiton now live and 94% of MP's contacted!
Mike WestWirral, ENG, United Kingdom
Jun 15, 2020

608 MP'’s (94%) have now been contacted by constituents now with MPs from all parties speaking out about this issue. If you have contacted your MP and if you have received a response, post it in the comments. 
 
A Parliamentary petition has now been started so please go to https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324208 and with over 750,000 signees on this petition, we are sure to have this issue debated. 
 
CAAT have compiled a list of companies that manufacture this equipment, and their researchers are putting some other bits of evidence together that should be published this week explaining it all. We need to hold these companies to account for their weapons being used in what has been described by the director of Global Freedom of Expression at Columbia University and the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions . Agnes Callamard as “possible violations of international law and the principles of necessity and proportionality”. 
https://www.caat.org.uk/resources/companies?activity=activity,crowd-control 
 
For more information on these “less lethal” weapons, Amnesty International have compiled a report  that these weapons have killed and also wounded horribly, leading even to permanent disability. https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/ACT3013052015ENGLISH.PDF 
 
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