article_snippet: Sniper rifles, phone-hacking equipment and specialist 'sound guns' will be available to help foreign police control uprisings.
article_snippet: Ministers have organised an arms fair to sell anti-riot equipment to foreign governments including rubber bullets, like those used by police against protesters in Sao Paulo, Brazil last year 2014 .
article_snippet: £15.9million worth of export licences for crowd-control have been approved by Vince Cable's Business Department.
article_snippet: Much of the kit is sold to democracies like France and the US.
article_snippet: But crowd-control supplies have also been cleared for countries on The Government's own human-rights blacklist.
article_snippet: Nine of countries on the Government's own human-rights blacklist to receive export approvals - Afghanistan, Bahrain, Colombia, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Pakistan, Russia and Saudi Arabia - feature or have featured on the Government's own human-rights blacklist over the last five years.
article_snippet: The figures - compiled from The Government data by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade - show that goods worth £6.7m were cleared for shipping to the nine countries between 2010 and last September.
article_snippet: Since the Coalition came to power the Coalition has signed off export licenses for anti-riot equipment to foreign regimes, including Libya under Muammar Gaddafi (left) and Valdimir Putin's Russia .
highlights_snippet: Sniper rifles, phone-hacking kit and 'sound guns' will be available to buy .
  
highlights_snippet: Crowd control kit has been sold to regimes from Saudi Arabia to Russia .