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G4S meets critics with contempt
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Thursday’s annual general meeting of G4S, the global security company which provides services to Israeli prisons where Palestinians are held illegally and often tortured, revealed its underlying attitude to international law.
The AGM was attended by campaigners, including executive and staff members of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who bought shares in order to interrogate the board about G4S’s complicity in Israel’s occupation and its involvement in wider human rights abuses around the world.
Following harsh questioning on its contracts with the Israeli Prison Service at last year’s AGM, G4S published a 16-page summary the day before this year’s meeting of a report entitled Human Rights Review of G4S Israel: Human Rights Report and Legal Opinion. The report unsurprisingly concluded that G4S “has no causal or contributory role in human rights violations.”
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