An arms manufacturer admitted paying a private investigation agency to gather information on activists and groups including Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT).
Academics, medics and students will demonstrate outside the Annual General Meeting of Reed Elsevier in London today, urging the company to end its arms fairs.
Thirty UK Church leaders have signed a statement calling for the closure of the government arms sales unit, the Defence Export Service Organisation (DESO).
Alun Morinan, a member of the Anabaptist Network in the UK, has started work as the coordinator of the Christian network within the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), a non-partisan pressure group which seeks to end the military exports that fuel wars and prop up brutal regimes.
As local government, London Mayor Ken Livingstone and even the Metropolitan Police speak out against Europe's largest arms fair, to be held in London's Docklands from 13-16 September, Christians and others are gearing up for a week of protests and events during the fair.