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Ireland excludes G4S from project for being involved in dealings with IPS

Wednesday 15-October-2014

DUBLIN (PIC)– Ireland decided to exclude a British-Danish private security company from a big project in Dublin for being involved in dealing with Israeli Prison Service Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions National Committee revealed.

In a statement issued on Tuesday the committee said that Ireland ruled out the world’s largest security company G4S’s participation in a governmental big project for its involvement in providing security services for Israeli detention centers settlements and checkpoints.

For his part the official in the committee Zaid Shuaibi considered the dealing with G4S Security Company as an involvement in the IPS violations of international laws.

He called on Arab countries especially Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to take similar decisions and to stop its investments with G4S Company.

The company declared during its shareholders’ annual meeting on the fifth of June it will not renew security contracts with Israeli prisons and checkpoints.

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