{"id":55469,"date":"2023-05-26T13:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/26\/world-cup-security-guards-still-jailed-in-qatar-after-dispute-over-unpaid-wages"},"modified":"2023-05-26T13:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T04:00:24","slug":"world-cup-security-guards-still-jailed-in-qatar-after-dispute-over-unpaid-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55469","title":{"rendered":"World Cup security guards still jailed in Qatar after dispute over unpaid wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers at World Cup 2022 venues fired as tournament ended and allegedly jailed or deported after trying to claim unpaid wages<\/p>\n<p>Three World Cup security guards who were detained while trying to resolve a dispute over unpaid wages are still being held in Qatar four months after their arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Shakir Ullah and Zafar Iqbal from Pakistan, and an Indian national, have allegedly been sentenced to six months in prison and fined 10,000 riyals (\u00a32,220) each.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/26\/world-cup-security-guards-still-jailed-in-qatar-after-dispute-over-unpaid-wages\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers at World Cup 2022 venues fired as tournament ended and allegedly jailed or deported after trying to claim unpaid wagesThree World Cup security guards who were detained while trying to resolve a dispute over unpaid wages are still being held in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3764,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,847,1552,627,59,1086,212,60,524,1888,61,203,2428,2430,2429,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-employment","category-fifa","category-football","category-global-development","category-kenya","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-qatar","category-remittances","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","category-workers-rights","category-world-cup","category-world-cup-2022","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55470,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55469\/revisions\/55470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}