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Article

25 Feb 2013

Author:
War on Want

G4S accused over links to Palestinian ‘torture’ death jail

[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited G4S to respond. G4S referred us to a previous statement] Campaigners...called for...G4S to be held to account for its involvement with Israel’s unlawful detention of Palestinians. The call followed the death of a Palestinian prisoner, after his alleged torture in custody by Israel’s internal security service Shin Bet...War on Want demanded that the company withdraws from contracts to supply Israeli prisons, after Arafat Jaradat’s death at Megiddo prison, in the wake of his reported torture at the Al Jalameh interrogation centre. It said G4S provided security systems and the central control room at the prison in northern Israel and also equipped the West Bank interrogation centre War on Want...said: “...The terrible death of Arafat Jaradat highlights the urgent need for G4S to ends its complicity in Israel’s prison system.”