World Cup workers: Beatings, jail and deportation
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 13 Jul 2023
Standort: Katar
Unternehmen
Satmar Technologies - Recruiter , Stark Security - EmployerBetroffen
Total individuals affected: 1
Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( Number unknown - Kenia , Sicherheitsfirmen , Men , Unknown migration status )Themen
Personalbeschaffungsgebühren , Wage Theft , Willkürliche GefangennahmeAntwort
Antwort erbeten: Ja, von Resource Centre
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Ergriffene Maßnahmen: Satmar Agencies provided a response to the Resource Centre that they provided workers on two year contracts to Stark Security in 2018 and did not deploy again.
Art der Quelle: News outlet
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 13 Jun 2023
Standort: Katar
Unternehmen
Rafeeq - EmployerBetroffen
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( Number unknown - Ghana , Eilzustellung , Gender not reported ) , Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( Number unknown - Uganda , Eilzustellung , Gender not reported ) , Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( Number unknown - Nepal , Eilzustellung , Gender not reported )Themen
Einschüchterung & Drohungen , Wage Theft , Willkürliche Gefangennahme , Verweigerung der freien Meinungsäußerung , Access to Non-Judicial RemedyAntwort
Antwort erbeten: Ja, von The Resource Centre
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Ergriffene Maßnahmen: Rafeeq did not respond to request for comment.
Art der Quelle: News outlet
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 13 Jul 2023
Standort: Katar
Unternehmen
Zawiya - EmployerBetroffen
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( Number unknown - Uganda - Sector unknown , Men , Documented migrants )Themen
Gewaltakte , Einschüchterung & Drohungen , Wage Theft , Recht auf Nahrung , ImprisonmentAntwort
Response sought: Nein
Ergriffene Maßnahmen: The Resource Centre was not able to identify and contact Zawiya for a response to the allegations; if a response is received in future this page will be updated accordingly.
Art der Quelle: News outlet
Andrew Maganga from Kenya will never forget Qatar. It was in this country that he, for the first time in his life, was treated as a criminal. All he did was demand the salary that was promised to him for working as a security guard during the World Cup. For that he was arrested. His telephone was confiscated, and his mugshot and fingerprints were taken. He was sent to jail...
A primary school teacher, Bubacarr Kujabi from The Gambia backs up Andrew’s story. He, too, got deported after working as one of Stark Security’s senior supervisors... “The day we were arrested, we were starving,” recalls Bubacarr. “They had seized our food, they didn’t give us food anymore. We were struggling and suffering.”
“They played a trick on us. When the police came, Stark Security said we were protesting and that’s not allowed in Qatar. We had told them we was here to collect our salary. The police escorted us to prison and destroyed my ID. They even scanned my eyes. It is crazy. I did not do anything wrong, I contributed to making the World Cup successful, but they broke my heart into pieces.”...
Hillary Opuuli from Uganda was the victim of constant wage theft at his delivery company Rafeeq, he says, and his boss reported him to CID (Criminal Investigations Department) when he complained. Alongside a dozen workers from Ghana, Uganda and Nepal, he was deported for ‘absconding’, a common tactic used by companies to suppress workers or smother rebellion...
Edrine Bosa from Uganda, who claims his company Zawiya owes him 5,000 Qatari riyals (1,250 euro) in wages, recalls the day police CID arrived at his accommodation after he and his colleagues had filed a case at the labour court, prompted by unpaid wages and a lack of food. He says: “CID were not in uniform, one had handcuffs and a gun. Too much beating. With their hands. They beat him. They kick, boxing, and some fighting. When we tried to run, they put some of them in the car and took them to jail. Our managing director said if you don’t want to be taken to prison, take a ticket and go back home. I took the ticket because without food, how can you survive?” ...
Neither Stark Security nor Fifa replied to our request for comments.