{"id":309860,"date":"2021-09-13T18:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T18:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/sep\/13\/six-countries-invited-to-arms-fair-are-on-foreign-office-human-rights-list"},"modified":"2021-09-13T18:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T18:23:18","slug":"six-countries-invited-to-arms-fair-are-on-foreign-office-human-rights-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/13\/six-countries-invited-to-arms-fair-are-on-foreign-office-human-rights-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Six countries invited to arms fair are on Foreign Office human rights list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Department for International Trade sent invitations even though nations are of \u2018particular concern\u2019<\/p><p>Six nations listed by the Foreign Office as \u201chuman rights priority countries\u201d have been invited by the British government to send delegations to Europe\u2019s biggest arms fair, which begins in London\u2019s Docklands on Tuesday.<\/p><p>Among those invited is Saudi Arabia, to which the UK has allowed the export of \u00a320bn of arms that could be used in the war in Yemen, a bloody seven-year conflict that the UN says has caused the world\u2019s biggest humanitarian crisis.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/sep\/13\/six-countries-invited-to-arms-fair-are-on-foreign-office-human-rights-list\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/sep\/13\/six-countries-invited-to-arms-fair-are-on-foreign-office-human-rights-list\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department for International Trade sent invitations even though nations are of \u2018particular concern\u2019Six nations listed by the Foreign Office as \u201chuman rights priority countries\u201d have been invited by the British government to send delegations to Europe\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,84,2763,1314,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309860"}],"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\/1224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309861,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309860\/revisions\/309861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}