Germany, along with the United States, Russia and other European countries, sold weapons to volatile regimes in the Middle East and North Africa in past years, according to Amnesty International report released on Wednesday.
The report said the human rights abuses in countries ignored selling weapons to regimes that have since turned on their own people during the Arab Spring popular uprisings.

U.S. deal
Amnesty is currently urging U.S. lawmakers to block a proposed $ 53 million (38-million-euro) U.S. arms sale to Bahrain, where more than 30 people have been killed as the ruling monarchy has waged crackdown against anti-government protesters.
“It’s precisely the wrong signal for the Obama administration to be on the verge of sending $ million 53 in weapons to a Bahraini king whose security forces have already been opening fire on peaceful protesters this year,” said Sanjeev Bery, Amnesty’s Washington-based advocacy director for Middle East and North Africa.
Amnesty said its findings showed the need for an international arms trade treaty to cut off the supply of weapons to countries seen at risk of raising arms against their own people.