SIGN THIS PETITION PLEASE TO ASK TOWER HAMLETS NOT TO PROVIDE G4S WITH ANY CONTRACT !!! We the undersigned demand Tower Hamlets Council adopt an ethical procurement policy to prohibit contracts with G4S until they end their complicity in human rights abuse. 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. 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: Plaestinaians detained without trial by Israel. UK Foreign and Commonwelath Office funded report Children in Millitary Custody; February 2013 UNICEF Children in Israeli Millitary Custody, February 2013 UNICEF Children in Israeli Millitary Detention. The UNICEF report specifically mentions G4S- serviced Ofer Prison and the Kishon/Al Jalame detention Centre as places where children are interrogated. The report found that there is widespread, systematic and institutionalized abuse of Palestinian children held in Israeli custody. Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits an occupying power from forcibly transferring or deporting people from an occupied territory. Article 76, paragraph 1, of the Fourth Geneva Conevention states that protected persons accused of offences shall be detained in the occupied country and if convicted, they shall serve their sentences therein. Palestinian prisoners, includimg children are routinely trasnferred from the West Bank to G4S-serviced prisons and detention fascilities in Israel, in breach of both Articles. Until G4S can prove to the satisfaction of the Council that all such abuse has ended, and the company has withdrawn from any involvement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories or Israeli prisons, we call on Tower Hamlets to disqualify G4S from bidding for contracts.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:35:52 +0000
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