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Saudi Arabia has sentenced a group of foreign workers who protested against unpaid wages early last year to 300 lashes and four months imprisonment, exacerbating the already dismal plight of temporary foreign workers in the kingdom.
The men, employed by the construction conglomerates Binladin Group and Saudi Oger, had been waiting for months to be paid. Video footage from their protest in April shows them angrily setting ablaze several buses that belonged to their employers.
[...] Binladen Group, founded by the father of deceased al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, and Saudi Oger, led by Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri, both claimed they were unable to pay employees after a plunge in oil revenues.
The companies say they completed payment to 70,000 sacked employees at the end of 2016 and that workers who are still with the company would be receiving payments soon.
Source: teleSUR
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 08 2017, @04:43PM
I don't believe that I have ever advocated the destruction of property as a form of "protest". Had these people appropriated property, in lieue of wages owed, then sold that property to get the money due, I might go along with that. But wanton destruction of property is damned hard to justify. The protestors in Ferguson managed to look not terribly bad, for a time. Then, they started burning down the neighborhood, and whatever traces of sympathy I may have had for them evaporated. Occupy Wall Street was mostly a bunch of silly looking kids, but they managed to avoid destroying stuff. So, silly or not, they have retained a lot of empathy and sympathy. When shit gets broken, burnt, or destroyed, then it's no longer a protest - it's a riot. I'm not aware of any set of laws in any land that protect rioters.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @04:52PM
Peaceful protest is for civilized people. Rioting is what happens without civilized people. Stay away from major cities beginning in 2018.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @04:54PM
Riot is the language of the unheard. In KSA these people are definitely unheard, they don't even have the freedom to leave the country because their passports are confiscated [wikipedia.org] by their employers. The idea that they could appropriate the property and sell it themselves while living as slaves is a delusion.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Whoever on Sunday January 08 2017, @05:01PM
And they got the full force of the police shutting them down, using legal and illegal methods against the demonstrators. Of course, Occupy Wall Street did not have the Koch Brothers supporting them.
(Score: 2) by Some call me Tim on Sunday January 08 2017, @10:44PM
You're right, the Koch brothers didn't fund OWS, it was funded by George Soros. http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/iris-somberg/2011/10/14/36-million-soros-backs-occupy-wall-street-media-ignore-or-downplay [newsbusters.org]
Oh, and about those violent BLM protesters, yeah, more Soros funding. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/16/black-lives-matter-cashes-100-million-liberal-foun/ [washingtontimes.com]
Questioning science is how you do science!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2017, @12:24AM
Come on man, washington times?
That's the moonies.
You can't trust shit they say.
ANd newsbusters?
One step down from the moonies.
Neither of those two sites have ever published a retraction. Not once. You expect us to believe they have never made a mistake?
No, they are happy to let people keep believing lies - yes a mistake you know is a mistake and leave uncorrected is a lie.
Give us sources that at least try not to lie and then we'll take your claims seriously.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2017, @02:35AM
And this is why Runaway is fake news.
All fake news, all the time, 25/8! Maybe Runaway is a Moonie? He was in the Navy. . . ever make a port call in South Korea? Hmmm. There are Moonies in very strange places. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/24/usa.religion [theguardian.com]