Security guards in Qatar exposed to conditions 'amounting to forced labour,' says Amnesty report

By George Ramsay, CNN

Updated 1504 GMT (2304 HKT) April 7, 2022

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(CNN)With months to go until the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and less than a week since the draw took place, the country's treatment of migrant workers remains under scrutiny.

According to a report released by Amnesty International on Thursday, security guards in Qatar, including some working on projects associated with this year's World Cup, are subjected to working conditions «which amount to forced labour.» Based on interviews with 34 current and former security guards, all of whom were migrant workers, the report claims that employees of eight different private companies were regularly forced to work 12 hours a day, seven days a week, and sometimes worked for years without a day off. This