Qatar has deported several migrant workers for staging a protest over unpaid wages of about seven month.
During the protest earlier this month in Doha, at least 60 workers including some who had reportedly not been paid for seven months held up traffic outside the Al Bandary company, according to Equidem, a London-based labour rights campaign organisation.
“We have spoken to workers involved in the protests (including) one who has been deported back to Nepal, and confirmed he has returned.”
“Others from Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Egypt and the Philippines have also been deported,” said Equidem head Mustafa Qadri said.
Qatar’s government said on Sunday that “a number of protesters were detained for breaching public security laws”.
It added that “a minority of protesters who failed to remain peaceful and acted in breach of Qatar’s public security laws face deportation by court order”.
The labour ministry said it is paying salaries and benefits owed to Al Bandary workers. It added that “further action” was being taken against the company, which was already under investigation for failing to pay wages.
