{"id":316901,"date":"2017-07-12T02:56:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-profiting-from-yemeni-civilians-suffering-hrw\/"},"modified":"2017-07-12T02:56:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:56:47","slug":"uk-profiting-from-yemeni-civilians-suffering-hrw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-profiting-from-yemeni-civilians-suffering-hrw\/","title":{"rendered":"UK profiting from Yemeni civilians suffering: HRW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the United Kingdom is profiting from the suffering of Yemeni civilians by selling arms to Saudi Arabia.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The prominent rights group made the remarks in a press release on Tuesday, after a UK High Court ruling earlier in the week declared that London\u2019s arms sales to Riyadh were not illegal. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Describing the judgment as terrible news for Yemeni civilians, the HRW also expressed disappointment at the ruling for not helping pressure Riyadh to end its \u201cunlawful attacks\u201d in the war-torn country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The organization said it had identified at least 81 unlawful attacks conducted by the Saudi-led coalition on schools, markets, hospitals and homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure style=\"display:inline-block\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" width=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170712\/83acbd86-f90e-4359-bcb4-38510294f5fc.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Yemeni children stand amid the rubble of a building damaged in an airstrike by the Saudi army on the capital Sana\u2019a on July 13, 2015. (Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">In March 2015, the Saudi regime and its allies, backed by the US, began a military campaign against Yemen to reinstall its former&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/07\/12\/528180\/UK-profiting-from-Yemeni-civilians-suffering\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the United Kingdom is profiting from the suffering of Yemeni civilians by selling arms to Saudi Arabia. The prominent rights group made the remarks in a press release on Tuesday, after a UK High Court ruling earlier in the week declared that London\u2019s arms sales to Riyadh were not illegal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-316901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}