DOHA: According to workers who were forced from their homes, Qatar has evacuated apartment buildings housing hundreds of foreign workers in the same locations in the heart of the city Doha where visiting soccer fans would stay during the World Cup.
The majority of the workers were Asian and African, and they claimed that more than a dozen buildings had been evacuated and shut down by officials, forcing them to find any refuge they could, even camped out on the sidewalk outside one of their old houses.
Less than four weeks remain before the commencement of the world soccer championship on Nov. 20, which has garnered great international attention to Qatar’s treatment of foreign workers and its stringent social restrictions.
