News - World: Activists in Britain organized a mass protest in front of the High Court in London to demand the country's government to stop arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

Participants in the protest raised banners on which it was written that Britain was violating the law by allowing the arms sale to Saudi Arabia that could be used in the war against Yemen, despite evidence of repeated crimes of human rights and international law there.

Campaign Against Arms Trade activists blame the government in its 2020 decision to resume issuing permits for the supply of military equipment to Saudi Arabia.

The campaign stresses that granting licenses to sell arms to Saudi Arabia is an illegal procedure. “There is a clear danger that weapons can be used in grave violations of international humanitarian law against the Yemeni People,’ the participants confirmed.

The campaign is calling on the British High Court to rule that the government's decision to continue granting export licenses to Saudi Arabia is illegal and to refuse to suspend existing permits.

The US-Saudi aggression has launched an aggression against Yemen since March 2015, during which it committed thousands of crimes, killing tens of thousands, not to mention the economic blockade that brought the country to the point of famine and to become the worst humanitarian disaster in the world, according to the classification of the United Nations.

Earlier, the United Kingdom’s High Court of Justice is scheduled to hear a challenge to the UK government’s renewed arms sales to Saudi Arabia this afternoon, Human Rights Watch said.

The organization filed the lawsuit after Britain announced, in the summer of 2020, the resumption of arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

Ahead of the hearing, the organization's media coordinator, Emily Apple, accused the British government of caring "more about profit than war crimes and the deaths of civilians".

The organization first won its case against the government in 2019, when an appeals court ruled that Britain's license to sell arms to Saudi Arabia was illegal.

The Court said the government had failed to assess whether the arms sales violated its commitment to human rights and ordered it to "reconsider the matter".

During her tenure at the Department of International Trade, Liz Truss conducted a review and announced in 2020 that export licenses would resume.

Truss stressed that Riyadh has a real intention and ability to comply with international humanitarian law, despite isolated incidents.

The organization accused Truss of having "only verbally supported" a review of the arms sales.

A spokeswoman for the organization described Truss's reference to "isolated incidents" as "utter nonsense and deeply insulting to all Yemenis whose lives have been destroyed by British weapons".

CAAT stated that, since 2015, the British government has licensed the sale of weapons to Riyadh, including combat aircraft, guided bombs and missiles, at a value of £7.9 billion pounds ($9.8 billion).