Authorities detained (AP) at least sixty foreign workers who had gone months without pay and deported some of them, an advocacy group said. Qatar’s labor laws have drawn increased scrutiny as the country prepares to host the FIFA World Cup later this year.
This Backgrounder looks at the kafala migrant labor system used by Qatar and some other Middle Eastern countries.
Israel: NSO Group, the maker of the phone-hacking software Pegasus, will lay off (Times of Israel, AP) one hundred workers and replace its CEO. The United States blacklisted the company last year after reports that some governments used its technology to “conduct transnational repression.”
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