{"id":218468,"date":"2021-06-27T05:30:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/27\/17bn-of-uk-arms-sold-to-rights-abusers"},"modified":"2021-06-27T05:30:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:30:15","slug":"17bn-of-uk-arms-sold-to-rights-abusers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/27\/17bn-of-uk-arms-sold-to-rights-abusers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a317bn of UK arms sold to rights\u2019 abusers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weapons licensed for export to two-thirds of states on \u2018not free\u2019 register, including Libya, Saudi Arabia and Turkey<\/p><p>Two-thirds of countries classified as \u201cnot free\u201d because of their dire record on human rights and civil liberties have received weapons licensed by the UK government over the past decade, new analysis reveals.<\/p><p>Between 2011-2020, the UK licensed \u00a316.8bn of arms to countries criticised by <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomhouse.org\/\" title=\"\">Freedom House<\/a>, a US government-funded human rights group.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/27\/17bn-of-uk-arms-sold-to-rights-abusers\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/27\/17bn-of-uk-arms-sold-to-rights-abusers\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weapons licensed for export to two-thirds of states on \u2018not free\u2019 register, including Libya, Saudi Arabia and TurkeyTwo-thirds of countries classified as \u201cnot free\u201d because of their dire record on human rights and civil liberties have received weapons &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1317,1318,6,22662,10,14,1314,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218469,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218468\/revisions\/218469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}