{"id":1755621,"date":"2022-11-29T16:03:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755621"},"modified":"2022-11-29T16:03:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:03:45","slug":"qatari-official-comes-clean-about-deaths-of-world-cup-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/qatari-official-comes-clean-about-deaths-of-world-cup-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatari Official Comes Clean About Deaths of World Cup Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fqatari-official-comes-clean-about-deaths-of-world-cup-workers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755621&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8216;Between 400 and 500&#8217; people died while building infrastructure for the World Cup, says Qatar&#8217;s Hassan al-Thawadi<\/p>\n<p>    Buildings for World Cup workers in Qatar \/ Reuters   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/anna-allen\/\" title=\"Posts by Anna Allen\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Anna Allen<\/a> \u2022 November 29, 2022 4:00 pm  <\/p>\n<p>A top Qatari official estimates &#8220;between 400 and 500&#8221; workers died while building infrastructure for the World Cup\u2014a death toll 10 times larger than Qatar originally reported.<\/p>\n<p>Qatari Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy secretary-general Hassan al-Thawadi, who was involved in preparations for hosting the World Cup, was surprisingly candid in an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan. When asked what the &#8220;honest, realistic total&#8221; of migrant workers who died from work for the World Cup, al-Thawadi said the estimate was &#8220;around 400, between 400 and 500.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have the exact number,&#8221; he added. &#8220;That&#8217;s something that&#8217;s been discussed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But this is the first time that officials of Qatar\u2014a country with an appalling human rights record\u2014have discussed these figures publicly,\u00a0the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/world-cup-sports-health-soccer-covid-e19bd8a30f7f9be62cf10bad496639ff?utm_source=homepage&#038;utm_medium=TopNews&#038;utm_campaign=position_10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Tuesday. Numerous human rights advocates have <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/soccer-fans-hate-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">condemned<\/a> Qatar for using forced labor to build the tournament&#8217;s infrastructure. The Supreme Committee&#8217;s original report, which limited its count to workers building the stadiums, only listed 40 deaths and said that 37 of them were non-work incidents. Al-Thawadi&#8217;s estimate encompasses the death toll from all the infrastructure built for the tournament, not just the stadiums.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is just the latest example of Qatar&#8217;s inexcusable lack of transparency on the issues of workers&#8217; deaths,&#8221; Nicholas McGeehan, a London-based workers&#8217; rights advocate, told the AP. &#8220;We need proper data and thorough investigations, not vague figures announced through media interviews.\u00a0FIFA and Qatar still have a lot of questions to answer, not least where, when, and how did these men die and did their families receive compensation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In response to al-Thawadi&#8217;s interview, the Supreme Committee said he was referring to &#8220;national statistics covering the period of 2014-2020 for all work-related fatalities (414) nationwide in Qatar, covering all sectors and nationalities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One death is a death too many. Plain and simple,&#8221; al-Thawadi adds in the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top Qatari official estimates &#8220;between 400 and 500&#8221; workers died while building infrastructure for the World Cup\u2014a death toll 10 times larger than Qatar originally reported.<br \/>\nThe post Qatari Official Comes Clean About Deaths of World Cup Workers appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":1755624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1755624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}