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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: 3, Informative) by Arik on Sunday January 08 2017, @05:01PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @05:14PM
One candidate took their money long before the election and gave it to the needy.
Another candidate started eight new for-profit businesses with them during the election.
Its totally the same thing.
(Score: 2, Informative) by slap on Sunday January 08 2017, @06:12PM
"One candidate took their money long before the election and gave it to the needy."
You missed the reports about the shady actions of the Clinton Foundation.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @07:08PM
I read them. They are breathless hyperbole that rely on the reader being ignorant of any context.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @08:44PM
God, Liberals are so fucking naive.
When Clinton was in a postition of power, every Middle East dictator suddenly loves giving tens of millions of dollars to kids. Now that Clinton isn't running for anything, all of those same brutal fundamentalists all simultaneously decided that they hate poor kids and stopped donating.
TOTAL. FUCKING. COINCIDENCE.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @11:59PM
That's actually backwards. When she was secretary of state, the saudis froze all donations. [politifact.com]
But you know, facts, who needs those?
Innuendo and unsupported cynicism are much more pleasing.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @09:01PM
You missed the fake-news reports about the alleged shady actions and pizza-gateof the Hillary Clinton Foundation. I hate that Hillary.
FTFY!!! No thanks necessary! Long live Brightbart!!!
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Sunday January 08 2017, @09:41PM
also missed the part about Sec. Clinton signing off on $100 billion in weapon sales to the Sauds and the continued killing of thousands of people in Yemen
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2017, @12:03AM
Gee, she signed off on yet another saudi weapons contract, like all administrations have done for decades before.
She's establishment, who would have guessed?
Trump has said he wants the saudis to have their own nukes. [breitbart.com] Great plan!