Post by account_disabled on Mar 9, 2024 3:54:25 GMT -5
Between 2015 and June 2023 (latest official data), Spain exported weapons to Saudi Arabia worth nearly €2.5 billion and authorized weapons licenses to that country worth more than €3.5 billion. All of this, despite the substantial risk of use in a conflict that has claimed at least thousands of victims, especially when Spain's contribution to humanitarian aid in Yemen has been negligible (9 million euros until 2022). Navantia corvettes, wind in their sails… Since 2015, AI has expressed its opposition to this operation and demanded that the Spanish Government suspend sales of weapons to the Saudi-Emirati coalition that could be used in Yemen to commit atrocities. In this context, the company Navantia announced at the end of December 2023 that in 2024 it will deliver the last of the five corvettes manufactured in the Cádiz shipyards.
On the occasion of the stopover in the port of Sagunto of the last more than 40 “ ships of death ” that have visited Spanish ports in recent years, we have demanded that the Spanish government condition training from the US military between 2015 and 2023. The report of the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working USA Phone Number Group on Saudi Arabia included recommendations from the US and Austria calling for an investigation and accountability into these homicides. During 2023, the independent Yemeni human rights organization Mwatana for Human Rights documented more than 1,100 incidents of violations committed by various conflict parties in Yemen resulting in the death of 161 civilians and injuries to 355 civilians, including unlawful attacks, restrictions on freedom of circulation and humanitarian access; arbitrary detentions and forced internal displacements.
According to AI's analysis of Yemen for the Universal Periodic Review it will undergo at the UN in 2024, violations continue in the midst of the conflict. In late December 2023, the the authorization of the export of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. finally to the blockade of Yemen and impunity . In these cases we have demanded information about the cargo on board the ships of the Saudi shipping company “Bahri”, that the transit of these ships not be authorized nor that they loaded weapons due to the substantial risk of use in Yemen. Spain and Saudi Arabia are friends, but there are friendships that kill The Spanish government faces a test of its commitment to respecting human rights . Not everything goes in the sale of weapons and the government must suspend the sale of those that can be used in Yemen to commit atrocities so as not to risk being complicit in the commission of war crim.
On the occasion of the stopover in the port of Sagunto of the last more than 40 “ ships of death ” that have visited Spanish ports in recent years, we have demanded that the Spanish government condition training from the US military between 2015 and 2023. The report of the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working USA Phone Number Group on Saudi Arabia included recommendations from the US and Austria calling for an investigation and accountability into these homicides. During 2023, the independent Yemeni human rights organization Mwatana for Human Rights documented more than 1,100 incidents of violations committed by various conflict parties in Yemen resulting in the death of 161 civilians and injuries to 355 civilians, including unlawful attacks, restrictions on freedom of circulation and humanitarian access; arbitrary detentions and forced internal displacements.
According to AI's analysis of Yemen for the Universal Periodic Review it will undergo at the UN in 2024, violations continue in the midst of the conflict. In late December 2023, the the authorization of the export of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. finally to the blockade of Yemen and impunity . In these cases we have demanded information about the cargo on board the ships of the Saudi shipping company “Bahri”, that the transit of these ships not be authorized nor that they loaded weapons due to the substantial risk of use in Yemen. Spain and Saudi Arabia are friends, but there are friendships that kill The Spanish government faces a test of its commitment to respecting human rights . Not everything goes in the sale of weapons and the government must suspend the sale of those that can be used in Yemen to commit atrocities so as not to risk being complicit in the commission of war crim.