JfJfP Applauds G4S Loss Of Security Contract

JfJfP Applauds G4S Loss Of Security Contract

Press release, JfJfP

17.04.12

G4S, the international security company, has now lost its contract to provide security to the European Parliament. Together with supportive MEPs and activists against Israel’s illegal occupation and violations of international law, Jews for Justice for Palestinians campaigned strongly against the renewal of this contract.

This is because G4S is notorious as a provider of services to the prisons in Israel which house Palestinian political prisoners from the occupied Palestine territories, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Some of the prisoners are administrative detainees, held without charge or trial, or the right to see and test any evidence the occupier may have against them; some are Palestinian children, subject to abuse by the occupying power. The conditions in which these prisoners are kept by their occupiers are so inhumane that four prisoners are now on hunger strike and 1600 are pledged to join them today, April 17th, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.

In the light of G4S’ complicity with Israel’s illegal occupation, Jews for Justice for Palestinians were proud to join with other human rights defenders in campaigning against the renewal of the contract with G4S.

Diana Neslen spokesperson for Jews for Justice for Palestinians, stated
“We congratulate the European Union on their decision not to renew the contract with G4S, complicit as the company is with Israel’s belligerent occupation. This decision will be a morale booster for Palestinian prisoners on the internationally recognised Palestinian Prisoners Day, April 17th. It will be a message that the world has not forgotten their plight and it is also a message to G4S and other complicit companies that in the end there is no profit in occupation.”

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