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Title: Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S over role in Israeli jails
Visit: Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S over role in Israeli jails
Author:
Michael Deas, Electronic Intifada
Dated:
17 Apr 2012
As political prisoners begun a mass hunger strike and Prisoners Day was marked with demonstrations in Palestine and around the world, Palestinian organisations today called for action to be taken against G4S, the British-Danish security corporation that is contracted to provide security equipment to Israeli prisons at which Palestinian political prisoners are held. A statement signed by 12 Palestinian organisations…said:…G4S provided systems for the Ketziot and Megiddo prisons, which hold Palestinian political prisoners from occupied Palestinian territory inside Israel in contravention of international law. The company also provided equipment for Ofer prison, located in the occupied West Bank, and for Kishon and Moskobiyyeh detention facilities, at which human rights organisations have documented systematic torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners…
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Visit: Security firm G4S provides services to Israeli prisons, police and army
Author:
Adri Nieuwhof, Electronic Intifada
Dated:
06 May 2012
British-Danish security firm G4S has been severely criticized for its operations in the occupied Palestinian territories and in prisons and detention centers in Israel, including those housing children and “administrative detainees” held without charge or trial...G4S submitted an update with old statements that does not address the criticism of the provision of services to prisons in Israel. Meanwhile, about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners bellow out their ill-treatment in a mass hunger strike...G4S shows no intention of terminating its services to prisons in Israel. As long as G4S is in any way involved in the detention of Palestinian political prisoners in Israel or the West Bank, it is not moving in the right direction.
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Visit: [PDF] G4S Update – April 2012
Author:
G4S
Dated:
24 Apr 2012
In 2011…we took a number of steps:…[including a] Legal Review…[seeking] External Advice…[carrying out a] Senior Management Review…The review concluded that a number of our contracts with private enterprises in the area for traditional security and alarm monitoring services were not discriminatory or controversial…However, we also concluded that to ensure that our business practices remain in line with our own Business Ethics Policy; we would aim to exit a number of contracts which involved the servicing of security equipment at the barrier checkpoints, a prison and a police station in the West Bank…We intend to exit the contracts outlined above when the contract terms expire and will continue to discuss this with the customers in question – the contracts in question are due to end between 2012 and 2015.
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