‘Activists gathered outside G4S’ AGM in London on Wednesday to protest against the security giant’s complicity in worldwide human rights abuses, particularly torture carried out against Palestinians.
The AGM kicked off at 12.30 BST in a small hotel in the south London borough of Sutton.
Shareholders making their way into the venue were greeted by groups of campaigners holding colorful placards decrying G4S’ human rights record.
G4S’ provision of equipment and services to Israeli prisons and the firm’s supply of wares to military checkpoints scattered along Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank were focal points of criticism. G4S was also lambasted for entrenching violence against asylum seekers in Britain and profiting from global crises born of conflict.’
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