Microsoft employee arrested at headquarters while protesting Israel contracts
A Microsoft employee was arrested as part of the events at the company of the company in Redmond, Washington this week. On Tuesday, a group of current and former employees of Microsoft, as well as members of the community, resumed a place at the headquarters of Microsoft to protest against the contracts of the company with Israel. The Protest Group No Azure for apartheid indicates that at least one Microsoft employee was now arrested as part of 18 arrests on a second day of demonstrations.
Microsoft headquarters demonstrators set up a “released zone” camp for a second day on Wednesday and poured red paint on a Microsoft panel on the campus. Komo News The reports that the Redmond police alleged that some demonstrators have also “blocked a pedestrian bridge and tried to create a barrier using tables and stolen chairs”. While the group of demonstrators was moved peacefully on the first day of demonstrations on Tuesday, Redmond police arrested 18 people during Wednesday demonstrations and claims that some demonstrators “became aggressive”.
At least one of the 18 orders is Anna Hattle, software engineer in the Cloud and IA team from Microsoft. Abdo Mohamed, an organizer of apartheid no azur The penis This Hattle and former employees of Microsoft Hossam Nasr and Vaniya Agrawal were arrested on Wednesday. “Arrested people include current and former workers from Microsoft as well as members of the Seattle community,” said Azure group for apartheid in a press release.
The last demonstrations come a few days after The guardianin partnership with +972 Magazine And Local callPublished an investigation that revealed that the Israeli government is based on Microsoft’s cloud services to store records and data of “one million calls per hour” made by the Palestinians.
“The company announced last week that it was pursuing an in-depth examination and independent of the new allegations reported for the first time earlier this month on the alleged use of its Azure platform in Israel,” said a nameless spokesman for Microsoft in a statement to Komo News. “Microsoft will continue to do the hard work necessary to comply with its human rights standards in the Middle East, while supporting and taking clear measures to combat illegal actions that damage goods, disrupt business or that threaten and harm others.”
Update, August 21: Updated article with additional details on arrests.
