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Article

1 Oct 2014

Author:
Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian (UK)

UK firm that sold teargas to Hong Kong to review sales policy

"A British company which sold teargas to Hong Kong has told the Guardian it will review its sales policy after a series of attacks on unarmed protesters in the former British colony.

Whitehall officials also made it clear they would re-evaluate their policy if they were asked to approve future export licences for teargas to Hong Kong....

...Chemring, based in Romsey, Hampshire, has sold the crowd-control weapon to the former British colony for several years under export licences approved by the British government."