[stirling-palestinedirectaction] Fw: [BIN] Cautious Victory - G4S finally announces it will end all Israeli prison contracts within 3 years

Sat Jun 7 11:42:11 PDT 2014

At last, some good news

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Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 06:12:46 +0100
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Subject: [BIN] Cautious Victory - G4S finally announces it will end all Israeli prison contracts within 3 years

Cautious Victory - G4S finally announces it will end all Israeli prison contracts within 3 years

7th June 2014, www.inminds.com

Yesterday the Financial Times reported that G4S has announced for the first time that it will end all its contacts with Israeli prisons within 3 years:

  "G4S has confirmed that it will end all its Israeli prison contracts within the next three years after an annual general meeting that was severely disrupted by human rights protesters.. Mr Almanza said for the first time that the move would also include prison service contracts all over Israel."*

This follows last years announcement that due to "reputational dangers" to their business, mentioning the protests outside their London Headquarters,  G4S would exit the contracts in the Occupied Palestinian Territories when they terminate in 2015. However, at the time they still maintained that they would continue their prison contracts in Israel. 

We have held regular protests outside G4S HQ in London for nearly two years, since August 2012 when the Palestinian Prisoners Campaign was launched at Al Quds Day, with a protest at least every fortnight. Congratulations to all the dedicated activists who kept the pressure on G4S to finally force them to change their stated position and announce they will abandon all prison contracts in Israel. 

Of course our campaign against G4S continues, this announcement on its own will not change anything other that ensure we go forward with extra vigour so that they follow-through on their promise. Our next protest will be next friday 13th June 2014 outside G4S HQ, the focus will be the Palestinian mass hunger strike against Israel's illegal practice of administrative detention where more than 2,000** Palestinians are caged every year without charge or trial for an indefinite period of time. This is another crime which G4S is inextricably complicit in, with 86% of administrative detainees caged in prisons they secure. Details for the protest will follow shortly.

*http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/06e06252-ecc9-11e3-8963-00144feabdc0.html
G4S to end Israeli jail contracts within three years [June 5, 2014 11:10 pm, Gill Plimmer ]

**On average more than 2,000  administrative detention orders issued per year, based on figures for 2007 - 2011

Arafat Jaradat

Six months into our campaign in February 2013 Palestinian father of two young children Arafat Jaradat was brutally tortured to death at G4S secured Mediddo prison, after first being torture at G4S secured Al-Jalame interrogation centre. At the time we held an emergency protest for him outside G4S HQ in London where we occupied the foyer of the building for over an hour until the police evicted us.

So it was fitting that 16 months later we dedicated the protest outside G4S AGM to Arafat Jaradat, demanding justice for him. We will never forget him, and the new roller banner and colour leaflets featuring him will ensure he will be part of all our future protests.

Emergency protest held outside G4S HQ when Arafat Jaradat was tortured to death in Feb 2013

G4S foyer occupied in response to G4S complicity in the murder of Arafat Jaradat in Feb 2013

Protest outside G4S AGM in 2014 dedicated to Arafat Jaradat, 16 months after his murder

(sorry all the images have had to be heavily compressed to ensure email size does not exceed 500k limit set by some mail system)

JazakAllah,
Abbas Ali

Palestinian Prisoners Campaign
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The Palestinian Prisoners Campaign aims to raise awareness for the plight of Palestinian prisoners and build solidarity for their struggle and work towards their freedom. The campaign was launched by Innovative Minds (inminds.com) and the Islamic Human Rights Commission (ihrc.org) on the occasion of Al Quds Day 2012 (on 17th August 2012), since then we have held actions every fortnight in support of Palestinian prisoners, if you can spare two hours twice a month then please join the campaign by coming to the next action.

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