- Editor’s note: Filter Nyheter is publishing this story from Josimar magazine (25.10.21) in response to legal threats against Josimar from the Qatar Supreme Committee. More important, it’s a great exposé that everyone should read and share. Thanks to Josimar for the opportunity to bring more attention to sportswashing, Qatar’s exploitation of World Cup workers and attempts of silencing whistleblowers and journalists.
Was he sentenced to five years in prison on trumped-up charges because he was defending migrant workers in Qatar? And was all this orchestrated by his former employer, The Supreme Committee of Delivery and Legacy, the organisation responsible for the 2022 World Cup?
On Sunday afternoon 4 August 2019 there was a real sense of urgency at the Al Bidda Tower offices of the Supreme Committee of Delivery and Legacy in West Bay, Doha.
Approximately 5000 migrant workers who hadn’t received their salaries for months were striking in the Al Shahaniya district, 40 kilometres north east of the capital, where several labour camps with dire conditions are located.
Inside the Supreme Committee (SC), who are in charge of the World Cup that will take place in November and December in Qatar next year, Secretary General Hassan Al Thawadi and Mahmoud Qutub, executive director of the SC’s Workers Welfare Program, were busy discussing with senior media people how to handle their response on the striking migrant workers on a WhatsApp group named Crisis Comm...
