{"id":1048,"date":"2025-08-28T05:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/microsoft-fires-two-employee-protesters-who-occupied-its-presidents-office\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T05:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:48:10","slug":"microsoft-fires-two-employee-protesters-who-occupied-its-presidents-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/microsoft-fires-two-employee-protesters-who-occupied-its-presidents-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft fires two employee protesters who occupied its president\u2019s office"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microsoft has fired two employees that were involved in a sit-in protest<\/a> in vice chair and president Brad Smith\u2019s office. Software engineers Riki Fameli\u00a0and Anna Hattle were both dismissed today, after being part of a group of seven protesters that managed to get inside Smith\u2019s office in Building 34 yesterday. <\/p>\n

Microsoft was forced to temporarily lock down<\/a> its executive building. The protesters live streamed themselves\u00a0on Twitch\u00a0entering Smith\u2019s office, and demanded that the company cut ties with the Israeli government. Microsoft employees Anna Hattle and Riki Fameli were both arrested during the incident, alongside former Microsoft employees\u00a0Vaniya Agrawal<\/a>, Hossam Nasr, and\u00a0Joe Lopez<\/a>. A former Google employee and another tech worker were also arrested.<\/p>\n

An unnamed Microsoft spokesperson told GeekWire<\/em><\/a> that the two employees were terminated \u201cfollowing serious breaches of company policies and our code of conduct.\u201d Microsoft refused to provide an attributable statement to The Verge<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Hours after the protesters were arrested, Brad Smith then held an emergency press conference<\/a> in his office. Seated on the edge of his desk, Smith addressed a group of reporters and viewers on a YouTube live stream. Smith said that Microsoft is \u201ccommitted to ensuring its human rights principles and contractual terms of service are upheld in the Middle East.\u201d He said the company launched an investigation earlier this month after The Guardian<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>reported that Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud platform was being used for surveillance of Palestinians.<\/p>\n

Hattle was previously arrested<\/a> during protests at Microsoft\u2019s headquarters last week, where Redmond police arrested 20 people after a group took over a plaza at Microsoft\u2019s headquarters<\/a>\u00a0to protest against the company\u2019s contracts with Israel. Protestors at Microsoft\u2019s campus set up a \u201cLiberated Zone\u201d encampment, and poured red paint over a Microsoft sign on campus.<\/p>\n

The latest protests were organized by No Azure for Apartheid, a group of current and former Microsoft workers who are demanding that the company cut its ties with the Israeli government. The group has carried out a variety of protests in recent months, with the latest disruptions escalating to the homes and offices of Microsoft executives<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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