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Qatar Arrests BBC Journalists Reporting on 2022 World Cup

By Dustin M Braden - May 18, 2015 07:09 PM EDT

The government of Qatar has arrested BBC journalists for their investigation into the conditions of workers, said to be treated as slaves, building stadiums for the 2022 World Cup.

Qatar admits it abducted missing human rights workers

By Dustin M Braden - Sep 08, 2014 04:54 PM EDT

The government of Qatar has confirmed it is responsible for the arrest of two human rights workers investigating the conditions of migrant laborers in the Arabian Gulf kingdom, which has been accused to maintaining working conditions akin to slavery by a variety of international human rights groups.

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