s Cairo bureau chief, is known for his coverage of Egypt's restive Sinai peninsula. He is a Canadian-Egyptian citizen. They deny the charges against them, apart from those relating to their paperwork, arguing that they are being prosecuted for simply doing their job in a difficult political climate. The trial was postponed to March 5, and bail requests by their lawyers were denied. The case has been...
s family say they have received no help from the Indian or Qatari authorities in establishing what happened. Instead, they have been pressured to sign a release requesting the return of Khalsa's body, and offered an insurance settlement from Qcon of £1,800. According to Surjit Kaur, Khalsa's mother, an official at the Indian embassy in Doha told them: "We've sent 25 bodies back to India this month...
s migrant workers are dying has been limited to the Nepalese. But Qatar's campaign to host the 2022 World Cup has made it a focal point It was a cursory, four-paragraph news story: the Times of India last October reported the case of four Indian workers who were killed while cleaning manholes in Doha. They joined a grim tally that has now reached 717 Indians alone since the World Cup was awarded to...
Qatari ministry responds to report that more than 500 Indian workers have died in Gulf state since 2012 With specific regard to these new figures, we were aware that local media had previously reported some of these headline numbers, and we are clarifying them. Clearly any one death in Qatar or anywhere else is one death too many – for the workers, for their families, but also for Qataris, who welcome...
s ministry of labour and social affairs told the Guardian : "With specific regard to these new figures, we were aware that local media had previously reported some of these headline numbers, and we are clarifying them. Clearly any one death in Qatar or anywhere else is one death too many – for the workers, for their families, but also for Qataris who welcome guest workers to our country to perform...
In a new exhibition, Michael Pawlyn lays out his vision for architecture inspired by the natural world – including biorock buildings grown entirely underwater and whole office blocks being lit by learning from the blind sea star Oliver Wainwright ...
s building sites as the Gulf state prepares to host the World Cup in 2022, a report will reveal this week. The grim statistic comes from the Pravasi Nepali Co-ordination Committee , a respected human rights organisation which compiles lists of the dead using official sources in Doha. It will pile new pressure on the Qatari authorities – and on football's world governing body, Fifa – to curb a mounting...
s building sites as the nation's prepares to host the World Cup in 2022 is a source of global concern. Alarmingly, the number, to be announced by a human rights organisation this week, is only a fraction of the true number of lives lost. It relates to Nepalese workers whose deaths have been documented by labour welfare groups. The number of deaths of workers from other countries such as Bangladesh...
s reputation include ex-BBC correspondent Peter Greste and Mohamed Fahmy Egyptian prosecutors say they have charged 20 al-Jazeera journalists, including two British citizens, with belonging to Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, fabricating news reports and tarnishing Egypt's reputation abroad. The journalists include the Australian ex-BBC correspondent Peter Greste and Canadian-Egyptian bureau chief...
s "2030 Vision", of which the staging of the 2022 World Cup is an integral part. Almost immediately, he began complaining of stomach problems but on each occasion was told to return to work without a medical examination. According to a Nepalese organisation tracking his case, he was eventually told on 14 July that if he continued working for a little longer he would be allowed to return home to Nepal....
s 2022 football World Cup facilities has been delayed in the Gulf state's planning system, the Guardian has learned. British consultants have been working with a US developer to build improved accommodation with health centres, shops, recreational areas and even psychologists' consulting rooms as an alternative to squalid and overcrowded conditions which are believed to contribute to a high death toll...
s wife and son face struggle to survive two months after his fatal incident while working for construction firm Pratima Neupane Phuyal was on her way to the market in Inaruwa, a town in southern Nepal, when she received a phone call she would never forget. The man on the line was ringing from Qatar, where her husband, Hari Prasad Phuyal, was working for a construction company. The message was brief...
s original revelations in September . The revelations forced Fifa's president, Sepp Blatter, to promise that football would not turn a blind eye to the issue following a stormy executive committee meeting. Qatar's ministry of labour hired law firm DLA Piper to conduct an urgent review and Hassan al-Thawadi, chief executive of the World Cup organising committee, said the findings would be treated with...
s government represents a shocking new nadir in the brutal Syrian civil war. The provenance of the photographs is significant – they came via the partial agency of Qatar, which backs the rebels – and the evidence may never be tested in court. Nevertheless, in the words of Sir Desmond de Silva, one of three internationally respected war crimes prosecutors who scrutinised the material, the cache of 55,000...
s authors, who interviewed the source for three days, have no obvious axe to grind and are eminently credible: they served as prosecutors at the criminal tribunals on Sierra Leone the former Yugoslavia. Those facts will surely offset any misgivings over the report's origins: it was commissioned and funded by the government of Qatar, a player in the Syrian conflict on the anti-government side. The evidence...
s preparations for the World Cup in 2022 have been mired in slavery allegations. Other invitees include the BBC's under-fire chairman Lord Patten, the TV producer Sir Peter Bazalgette and the oil tycoon turned digital businessman Mark Getty. They are among 60 Chequers guests whose costs were paid from public funds between August 2011 and September 2013. The list was quietly placed on No 10's website...
wages electronically would help track payments and combat corruption, says NGO Qatar should make electronic payment of wages to migrant construction workers mandatory to address one of their biggest concerns: non-payment and late payment of wages, an engineering group has said. Engineers Against Poverty, a UK-based NGO, presented the recommendation, along with others, to representatives of contractors...
Remember that buildings shouldn't burn things, windows should let in light and copying is fine – but just try not to annoy the skateboarders Oliver Wainwright ...
rights endemic in countries such as Qatar. Nepal's department of foreign employment throngs with crowds queuing for the permission they need to migrate. "We process 1,200-1,500 applications a day," said Chiranjibi Adhikari, the acting director of the department, sitting at his desk surrounded by stacks of dusty files. "So many want to go abroad for work. Even if they have a job here, they think they'll...
Majid Majidi's extravagant new film about the Prophet Muhammad is viewed with deep cynicism by a motion picture industry starved for funds ...