The Omega Research Foundation has documented over 50 ARMS AND SECURITY EQUIPMENT TRADE FAIRS, which are held regularly in at least 36 countries, most on an annual or biennial basis. ARMS AND SECURITY EQUIPMENT TRADE FAIRS States around the world regularly permit or facilitate arms and security equipment trade fairs and other related exhibitions where law enforcement equipment that could be misused for torture and other illtreatment is promoted. The Omega Research Foundation has documented over 50 of such established trade fairs and exhibitions, which are held regularly in at least 36 countries, mostly on an annual or biennial basis.48 In certain cases, investigations by Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation have uncovered the promotion of inherently abusive equipment at these events. Milipol Paris is a major biennial arms and security exhibition organized by commercial company Comexposium and the French Government’s CIVIPOL. Amnesty International and Omega researchers have repeatedly documented the promotion of a range of law enforcement equipment, including inherently abusive equipment and weapons, at Milipol Paris. In recent years, this has included direct contact electric shock weapons, body-worn electric shock devices, spiked batons and weighted restraints. While most of these goods were promoted in exhibitors’ product catalogues distributed at the event, researchers have discovered the physical display of certain inherently abusive items on exhibitors’ stalls. At Milipol 2015, a Chinese company, China Garments Co., Ltd., was photographed displaying weighted leg irons.49 At Milipol 2017, a Chinese company, Origin Dynamic, displayed its remotely operated “Constraint”, an electric shock device that can be attached to a prisoner’s arm or leg, and advertised that “One click will bring down the person and the wearer will lose capability to act and attack”.50 At Milipol 2019, a spiked arm shield was discovered on the stand of a Chinese company, Jiangxi Great Wall Protection Equipment Industry Co. Ltd.51 In all three cases, once discovered, the Milipol organizers ensured that the offending goods were removed from display, though in none of these cases were the goods confiscated from the offending exhibitors. States around the world regularly permit or facilitate arms and security equipment trade fairs and other related exhibitions where law enforcement equipment that could be misused for torture and other ill-treatment is promoted. 48 For more information about particular trade fairs see Omega Research Foundation, Arms fairs interactive map, https:// omegaresearchfoundation.org/resources/arms-fairs 49 Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation, Why the EU Should Ban the Commercial Marketing of Inhumane Policing and Prison Equipment (EUR 01/3636/2016) 50 Omega Research Foundation, Manufacture, trade and use of “tools of torture” in the Council of Europe, June 2018, p. 23, https:// omegaresearchfoundation.org/sites/default/files/uploads/Publications/CoE%20Tools%20of%20Torture%20Report%20January%20 2018%20Omega%20Research%20Foundation.pdf 51 Omega Research Foundation, Review of the EU Anti-Torture Regulation and its implementation, November 2020, https:// omegaresearchfoundation.org/sites/default/files/uploads/Publications/Omega%20EU%20Anti-Torture%20report%202020.pdf ENDING THE TORTURE TRADE THE PATH TO GLOBAL CONTROLS ON THE ‘TOOLS OF TORTURE’ Amnesty International | Omega Research Foundation 23