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Activists In Custody For Trying To Stop Delivery Of Warplanes To Saudi Arabia

January 31 2017

United Kingdom

Two activists in England have been arrested for apparently attempting to disarm fighter jets being manufactured for Saudi Arabia, reports Sky News (U.K.).

Rev. Dan Woodhouse, a Methodist minister in Leeds, and Quaker activist Sam Walton entered the BAE Systems facility in Warton, Lancashire, on Sunday morning in order to disarm aircraft, according to a statement released on their behalf.

The two were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage following an incident at the site,...

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