Recent bloodshed underscores urgent need to halt arms transfers to Egypt

Headline Title:  Recent bloodshed underscores urgent need to halt arms transfers to Egypt 20 August 2013 All governments must suspend the transfer of weapons of the type used by Egypt’s security forces in violent dispersals and unwarranted lethal force against sit-ins and other protests, Amnesty International said today. The organization has analysed some of the transfers to Egypt in recent years – including tens of thousands of conventional weapons worth tens of millions of dollars. Among the countries supplying weapons and ammunition of the type used during the bloodshed on 14 August…

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