Rejected petition To implement a full independent inquiry into the supply of British arms to ISIS.

Oliver Sprague, Amnesty UK’s arms programme director, said:“Decades of free-flowing arms into Iraq meant that when [Isis] took control of these areas, they were like children in a sweetshop”

More details

He added: “The fact that countries including the UK have ended up inadvertently arming [Isis] , should give us pause over current weapons deals”.

The extent of the armoury available to Isis reflects decades of irresponsible arms transfers to Iraq, a danger compounded by lax controls over military stockpiles and endemic corruption by successive Iraqi governments, says Amnesty.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/112952

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 8 December 2015
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.