World Cup workers: Beatings, jail and deportation
摘要
日期: 2023年7月13日
地點: 卡塔爾
企業
Satmar Technologies - Recruiter , Stark Security - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 1
移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 肯亞 , 安保公司 , Gender not reported )議題
招聘費用 , Wage Theft , 任意拘留回應
已邀請回應:是,由Resource Centre
載有回應的故事: (查看更多)
後續行動: 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.
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2023年6月13日
地點: 卡塔爾
企業
Rafeeq - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 迦納 , 快遞 , Gender not reported ) , 移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 烏干達 , 快遞 , Gender not reported ) , 移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 尼泊爾 , 快遞 , Gender not reported )議題
恐嚇和威脅 , Wage Theft , 任意拘留 , 剝奪言論自由 , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy回應
已邀請回應:是,由The Resource Centre
載有回應的故事: (查看更多)
後續行動: Rafeeq did not respond to request for comment.
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2023年7月13日
地點: 卡塔爾
企業
Zawiya - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 烏干達 - 未知行业 , Gender not reported )議題
毆打和暴力 , 恐嚇和威脅 , Wage Theft , 食物權 , Imprisonment回應
Response sought: 否
後續行動: 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.
資訊來源: 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.