Dozens of contract workers at Amazon warehouses say they were tricked into toiling and living in grueling, squalid conditions
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Momtaj Mansur wanted to go home to his mom and his brother and the pastures of Nepal’s southern plains. He felt like a prisoner, he says, in a roach-infested bunkhouse in Saudi Arabia, out of work, hungry and deep in debt.
The 23-year-old had come to Riyadh, the Saudi capital, in 2021 to work for one of the world’s biggest companies: Amazon.
Written by Pramod Acharya and Michael Hudson
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/10/amazon-trafficking-links-claims-saudi-arabia-workers-abuses under the title “Revealed: Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabia”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
