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Emergency Protest - Arafat Jaradat tortured to death in G4S secured Israeli prison

inminds
26 February 2013

Join us on Friday 1st March at 2pm outside G4S HQ, 105 Victoria Street SW1E 6QT (3mins from Victoria station), to show solidarity with Arafat Jaradat and to protest G4S's complicity in his murder.

Friday 1st March 2013
2:00-4:00pm
G4S London HQ
105 Victoria Street, SW1E 6QT (Victoria Tube)

Arafat Jaradat, 30 yr old Palestinan father of 2 children aged 4 and 2 yrs old, married with a pregnant wife, died on Saturday 23rd Feb 2013 after being tortured by Israel’s security service Shin Bet.

Arafat Jaradat had been arrested on suspicion of throwing a stone, 5 days later he was dead. Postmortem revealed clear signs of torture: beating on chest, lashes on his back, shoulders near spine. Autopsy showed two broken ribs, blood in his nose and bruises inside his mouth.

Arafat Jaradat died in Megiddo Prison following interrogation in al-Jalame interrogation centre.

British-Danish security firm G4S help Israel secure both these prisons. At Megiddo the whole central command room is provided by G4S. It also provides security systems for the notorious al-Jalame interrogation centre in northern Israel with its infamous Cell 36 where Defence for Children International reported children are locked in small filthy cells in solitary confinement, some for 65 days, with their only escape being the interrogation room where they are shackled by their hands and feet to a chair whilst being abused, sometimes for hours.

Hunger Strikers

The protest is also in solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers, all of whom are in critical condition. Ayman Sharawna and Samer Issawi have both been without food for over 7 months whilst Jafar Azzidine and Tarek Qa’adan have each been without food for over 3 months, and Hazem Awni Tawil one week.

We received a powerful message of support from the Shireen Issawi, former prisoner and sister of the hunger striker Samer Issawi who himself was was held in Ofer prison in the occupied territory where G4S provides the perimeter defense system and the central command control room for the entire facility :

Help us 'deliver the voice of the oppressed prisoners' and join us at G4S HQ on friday 2pm.

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Live updates during protest

We will, inshAllah, be tweeting live from the protest with live photos being uploaded to our facebook page. So if you can't join us on the day, please help us by sharing the photos as they get uploaded.

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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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