Demo and blockade against G4S in Stockholm
Anon | 21.06.2012 19:05
G4S involved in maintaining the occupation of Palestine.
An international campaign against G4S has been started, but to pay particular attention to their behaviour, we chose to conduct a protest during the No Border Stockholm.
G4S is a leading multinational company focused on security and making money. G4S guards the Palestinian prisoners, in violation of international law, who are detained in prisons in Israel.
The company also has security guards in shops and banks in illegal Israeli settlements, and sells monitoring systems for private homes, prisons, police and checkpoints in the West Bank.
Management announced in 2002 that they planned to withdraw from contracts that are not in accordance with company policy. Ten years later, they still support crimes under international law in Palestine.
The company runs prisons in the United States, security and military tasks in Iraq, border controls in several countries and private asylum accommodation including in the UK. Criticism ranges from violations of human rights, abuse and harassment in detention and during transport. No one has been held accountable for the fatal beating of Jimmy Mubenga that occurred during a deportation in 2010. G4S are hired to enforce deportations in Britain, for example, and Holland.
An international campaign with Swedish branches has been launched to prevent G4S being rewarded with public monitoring services. The campaign has begun to bear fruit. Parliament chose for example not to renew their contract with G4S, upon the demand of 28 MPs. Some places in Stockholm are guarded by G4S in the Reichstag, the Stockholm County hospitals and soon Friends arena.
In Malmo, the red-green majority decided to write to the company and question their activities in the occupied Palestinian territory.
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Anon
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