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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @11:27PM
actions which of course are unrelated to the oppression they face from the evil Saudi government.
Oh, yes, quite! Totally unrelated, no connection at all!!! Are you really this stupid, or are you lying?
If someone comes and burns my bus, they should face punishment. Even if I owe them money and even if I were kind of a jerk.
No, you will be lucky they do not kill you very slowly, while roasting your dog on a slow fire, repaying you for being a jerk in kind. Because you see, if you have property, and you are a jerk, you lose all right to that property, and if you will not give it up, justice demands that it, and you, be destroyed to serve justice and to be a lesson to other persons with property who somehow think that property is really theirs. Property only exists as long as other persons recognize ownership. If other people cease to recognize it, there is no property. This is why Runaway2926 is such a totally ignorant supporter of absolute monarchies: He is a property racists.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Sunday January 08 2017, @11:52PM
I think you missed the sarcasm, and stopped reading halfway through the post.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2017, @05:48AM
But I think you missed my meta-sarcasm, which probably happened from reading all the way through. I find that the only answer to the threat of terrorism is to give the cowards who are scared by remote possibilities of terrorism something much more close to home to worry about, like burning rainbows on their lawns early in the morning, having their "busses" burned for no apparent reason other than that they have fuching busses. Their "family pet" trained attack dog shot dead by law enforcement after, opps, they let them off the leash. And finally, when anyone who puts any property over any human life has to be put down, 'cause, you know, they ain't right in the head. Just saying.