Tags - UK
Rasa - Survivors of the September 11 attacks have called on British Prime Minister Theresa May to allow the release of a government report highlighting the Saudi role in funding extremism.
News ID: 431080 Publish Date : 2017/07/19
Rasa - The High Court in London has just ruled that British arms sales to Saudi Arabia are lawful, dismissing a judicial review filed by Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), which had demanded that weapons exports be halted over humanitarian concerns and war crimes.
News ID: 431069 Publish Date : 2017/07/18
Poll:
Rasa - A majority of the British public believes the UK must end arms sales to Saudi Arabia over its large-scale slaughter of civilians in Yemen, according to a new poll.
News ID: 431040 Publish Date : 2017/07/16
Rasa - Britons urge the government of Prime Minister Theresa May to release a report about Saudi Arabia’s funding of extremists operating in the UK , and to stop selling arms to the kingdom.
News ID: 431030 Publish Date : 2017/07/16
Ex-UK ambassador:
Rasa - Former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia Sir William Patey says the kingdom is fueling extremism in the United Kingdom and Europe, arguing that its support for Wahhabist ideology is leading to radicalization.
News ID: 430984 Publish Date : 2017/07/14
Rasa - The British government has announced that it will not publish in full a report on the sources of funding of extremism and terrorism in the country.
News ID: 430979 Publish Date : 2017/07/12
HRW:
Rasa - Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the United Kingdom is profiting from the suffering of Yemeni civilians by selling arms to Saudi Arabia.
News ID: 430961 Publish Date : 2017/07/12
UK court:
Rasa - The UK High Court has reviewed a plea against the country’s arms sales to Saudi Arabia in the light of the fact that the kingdom is waging a bloody war against Yemen, deciding that the government's weapons sales are not in contravention of the law.
News ID: 430912 Publish Date : 2017/07/10
Rasa - Hate crimes in the UK involving racial and religious discrimination have spiked at an unprecedented rate since last year’s British referendum to leave the European Union, raising concerns that minority groups feel “more vulnerable than ever.”
News ID: 430878 Publish Date : 2017/07/09
Rasa - An estimated 129 nations are prepared to sign a global ban on nuclear weapons, the first ever such treaty and the first multilateral nuclear disarmament treaty in more than 20 years.
News ID: 430868 Publish Date : 2017/07/08
Rasa - Foreign funding for extremism in Britain primarily comes from Saudi Arabia, but the UK government should set up a public inquiry into all Persian Gulf funding sources, that’s according to a new report by the Henry Jackson Society.
News ID: 430820 Publish Date : 2017/07/07
Rasa - UK Prime Minister Theresa May is not likely to release the findings of an investigation into Saudi Arabia’s funding of extremist groups across Britain, out of fear that the move would hurt relations with the Middle Eastern ally.
News ID: 430774 Publish Date : 2017/07/04
Rasa - British Prime Minister Theresa May is yet to decide whether to publish details of a report about foreign funding of extremism in the UK with a focus on Saudi Arabia.
News ID: 430764 Publish Date : 2017/07/04
Rasa - The UK police have launched a hate crime investigation into an acid attack against two Muslim cousins in east London.
News ID: 430740 Publish Date : 2017/07/02
Rasa - The government of British Prime Minister Theresa May has been advised to mend “broken relationship” with Muslim communities and review its counter-radicalization and integration strategies.
News ID: 430726 Publish Date : 2017/07/03
Rasa - Britain’s Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has called for an immediate investigation into claims by British media about unlawful killings by British special forces in Afghanistan.
News ID: 430724 Publish Date : 2017/07/03
Rasa - Britain’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has denounced the use of UK -made weapons in Saudi Arabia’s war against Yemen, calling on the government to block further arms sales to the kingdom.
News ID: 430703 Publish Date : 2017/07/01
Rasa - At least six people have been wounded after a car ran ploughed into a large crowd of people marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan in New Castle.
News ID: 430576 Publish Date : 2017/06/25
Report:
Rasa - UK Prime Minister Theresa May has been accused of paying disproportionate attention to what she calls the threat from “Islamic extremism” while failing to notice the rise in the far-right terrorism threat.
News ID: 430466 Publish Date : 2017/06/20
Rasa - A large number of protesters angry at the British government’s handling of the deadly Grenfell Tower fire have stormed the building of the Kensington town hall in central London.
News ID: 430386 Publish Date : 2017/06/16