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G4S must end its complicity in Israel’s abuse of child prisoners
As G4S management and shareholders prepare to participate in the G4S AGM on Thursday, we call on G4S management and shareholders to end the corporation’s participation in Israel‘s brutal occupation. G4S operates and maintains security systems at the Ofer prison, located in the occupied West Bank, and for the Kishon and Moskobiyyeh detention/interrogation facilities, at which human rights organisations have documented systematic torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners, including child prisoners, held in solitary confinement.
G4S helps the Israeli prison service to run prisons inside Israel that hold prisoners from occupied Palestinian territory, despite the fourth Geneva convention prohibition of the transfer of prisoners from occupied territory into the territory of the occupier. Through its involvement in Israel‘s prison system, G4S is complicit in violations of international law and participates in Israel‘s use of mass incarceration as a means by which to dissuade Palestinians from protesting against Israel‘s systematic human rights abuses.
G4S also provides equipment and services to the Israeli military checkpoints in the West Bank that form part of the route of Israel‘s illegal wall and to the terminals isolating the occupied and besieged territory of Gaza. G4S‘s role in Israel‘s brutal occupation and abhorrent prison system is unacceptable and must end. Join our call – add your name to this letter on the War on Want website.
Source: http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/g4s-must-end-complicity-israels-abuse-child-prisoners/
