UK trains soldiers for regimes on its own human rights watchlist

Britain is providing military training and support to the majority of the countries named on its own human rights abusers watchlist, The Independent can reveal. The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) designated 30 nations as “human rights priority” countries last year, warning of their conduct on a range of issues from internal repression to the use of sexual violence in armed conflict. But information released by ministers shows that British armed forces trained “either security or armed forces personnel” in 16 of the listed countries since 2014.
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