Rejected petition Hold Michael Fallon MP to account: Licensing Arms sales to KSA for use in Yemen

The government has known for many months that Saudi Arabia are involved in genocide in Yemen and are deliberately bombing civilians. The MOD licence weapons sales to Saudi Arabia. It is illegal under International Law to do this where it is suspected that these weapons are being used on civilians

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Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Petitions need to contain a clear request for action from the UK Government or Parliament.

There is already an open petition calling for the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia tob e stopped:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/114008

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

Date submitted 22 December 2015
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