Microsoft conducts a press conference for emergency situations after protesters “storm the building”

Microsoft President Brad Smith held a makeshift press conference on Tuesday afternoon, a few hours after protesters were accessed to the building at the company headquarters and held a demonstration in his office.

Sitting on the edge of his table, in an office that was occupied by protesters before that day, Smith turned to a group of reporters and spectators on a live broadcast. “Obviously, it was an unusual day,” he said when he spoke camera.

Protesters were part of Azure for a group of apartheid, which is further few Cases This year, Microsoft public presentations were interrupted to require the company to terminate all treaties with the Israeli government and the military.

Smith stated that Microsoft “was obliged to ensure its principles of human rights and contractual conditions for the provision of services in the Middle East.” According to him, the company started the investigation early this month after Guardian reported that the cloud platform Microsoft Azure was used to monitor Palestinians. Smith stated that Microsoft disagreed with some of the reports, but others guarantee the investigation.

“We work daily to get to the bottom of what is happening and we will be,” Smith said.

Organizer for the apparatus for apartheid, abdo Mohammed, before I told today Race Those Microsoft workers Ricky Fameli and Anna Hutl were part of the protest. Former Microsoft workers joined them Vanish AgravalHossam Nasr, and Joe Lopez.

Smith stated that as a whole, seven people were involved in today’s protests, with two of them Microsoft. The people were removed by Redmond police, he said.

“When seven people do as they are storming the building today, occupying an office, locking other people from the office, listening to plants – even in raw shapes, in the form of phones, mobile phones, hidden under couchs and books – this is not normal,” Smith said. “When they are asked to leave and they refused, it’s not okay.”