"Qatar World Cup: Air-con stadium opens as worker abuse continues", 19 May 2017

[T]he newly renovated "air-conditioned" Khalifa International Stadium in Doha will host its first match five years before the tournament begins. Costing more than $91mn, the renovated stadium will host its inaugural match...one month after independent auditors published fresh details of ongoing exploitation of migrant workers across World Cup projects...Carpenter Jagdesh Kumar, aged 54, is the fourth Indian employed on a World Cup site to die from a heart attack. Three other workers from India died during the past 18 months, according to a 2016 report by Qatar's World Cup organising body...James Lynch, who is the deputy director of Amnesty International's global issues programme, said: "It's a year since Amnesty International exposed the exploitation of migrant workers who helped to build the Khalifa Stadium, but abuses on Qatar 2022 sites have continued."...Last year, Amnesty International published a report exposing how workers at the Khalifa International stadium were subjected to systematic labour abuses. Many workers...said that they had accrued heavy debts after paying large recruitment fees...Others had their passport confiscated and barred from leaving the country by their employers...