Britain’s Royal Air Force has trained 25 pilots from Saudi Arabia to fly the powerful Typhoon jet and continues to provide instruction on using missiles involved in devastating attacks on civilians in Yemen.
Middle East
British training of Saudi pilots continues amid bombing of Yemen
by PHIL MILLER | 23 September 2020
TAGGED: Saudi Arabia, Yemen
UK defence minister admits that training of Saudi Typhoon pilots is continuing despite Riyadh using these British-made jets to conduct airstrikes in Yemen, a country on the brink of famine.
How a British policeman helped normalise torture in a Gulf monarchy
by QAYS ABDULLA | 14 September 2020
TAGGED: Bahrain, Kenya, Police
As two political prisoners face execution in Bahrain, the country’s repressive justice system remains rooted in the career of Ian Henderson – one of the most notorious police officers the British empire ever produced, who caused suffering to scores of Bahrainis including members of my family.
Revealed: Censored videos show Saudi pilots bombing Britain
by PHIL MILLER | 10 September 2020
TAGGED: Saudi Arabia, Yemen
The UK’s Royal Air Force is refusing to release video footage that shows fighter pilots from Saudi Arabia conducting air attacks in Britain, as part of a controversial military training scheme which involves 25 civilian airports.
Military police probe British soldier over Yemen war protest
by PHIL MILLER | 25 August 2020
TAGGED: Saudi Arabia, Yemen
A serving British soldier is being investigated by the Royal Military Police for protesting against arms sales to Saudi Arabia. He accuses the government of having ‘blood on their hands’ and says: ‘I’d rather sleep peacefully in a cell than stay silent for a paycheck.’
Revealed: MI5 and MI6 are training senior spies from Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt
by PHIL MILLER | 27 July 2020
TAGGED: Egypt, MI5, MI6, Saudi Arabia, UAE
Britain’s intelligence agencies are teaching the next generation of spymasters from some of the world’s most repressive dictatorships, it can be revealed for the first time.
For Sama’a: As Britain resumed arms sales to Saudi Arabia, a deadly airstrike in Yemen
by MATT KENNARD | 20 July 2020
TAGGED: Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Eyewitnesses in Yemen tell Declassified UK’s reporter on the ground about the aftermath of an airstrike that killed a young girl and her grandmother.
Revealed: How the British military supplies ‘mercenary’ forces to a Gulf dictatorship
by PHIL MILLER | 20 July 2020
TAGGED: Oman
Britain has 91 troops ‘on loan’ to Oman, where serving UK military pilots are flying Omani fighter jets, helicopters and military transport planes under a secretive scheme designed to bolster the repressive monarchy, Declassified UK can reveal.
Children killed in Yemen by Saudi-led airstrikes days before and after UK arms sales resume
by PHIL MILLER | 15 July 2020
TAGGED: Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Airstrikes in Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition killed eight children shortly before and after the UK government claimed there was ‘not a clear risk’ of British weapons being used for war crimes, Declassified has found.
‘Paralysing a nation’: Evidence emerges of Royal Navy’s complicity in Saudi-led sea blockade of Yemen
by PHIL MILLER | 7 July 2020
TAGGED: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen
The Saudi-led coalition has received British training on naval tactics that could be used for blockading Yemen, an embargo which UN experts have described as ‘unlawful’. Amnesty International says the new information is ‘deeply concerning’.