Wednesday, January 21
6:30pm
Mulberry Place, East India Dock – Town Hall
Tower Hamlets
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1531969300422454/
G4S is complicit in human rights abuse throughout the world!
G4S provides security systems for major Israeli prisons and detention centres, which hold Palestinian political prisoners from occupied Palestinian territory inside Israel. Human rights organizations have documented systematic torture and ill treatment of Palestinian prisoners, including child prisoners, detained within Israel.
The transfer of prisoners from occupied territory into the territory of the occupier contravenes Articles 49 and 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
The transfer of prisoners from occupied territory into the territory of the occupier contravenes Articles 49 and 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
In the Occupied West Bank, G4S provides equipment for a prison, police headquarters, businesses within illegal settlements, a settlement industrial zone and check points along the Illegal Apartheid Wall.
Reports include:
June 2012 Amnesty International ‘Starved of Justice: Palestinaians detained without trial by Israel’.
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office funded report ‘Children in Millitary Custody’;
G4S lost the contract to deport people from the UK after Jimmy Mubenga, an Angolan asylum seeker died, following restraint by G4S employees. A Parliamentary report confirmed that ‘inappropriate physical and possibly dangerous restraint techniques’ were used.
Until G4S can prove to the satisfaction of the Council that all such abuse has ended, and the company has withdrawn from any involvement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories or Israeli prisons, Tower Hamlets PSC will be presenting a petition to the Council to ask them to disqualify G4S from holding contracts in the Borough.
There will be a lobby of the full council meeting 21st January where this petition will be presented: https://www.change.org/p/
If 2000 people sign, this will force a whole council debate.
Sign and share this petition and join us in solidarity at the lobby outside this meeting!
