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As pandemic restricts travel and work, internet restrictions block Gulf migrant workers from contacting families
"Foreign workers in the Gulf can't call home during coronavirus crisis," 27 Mar 2020
Human rights groups are urging [Gulf] governments to ease [internet] restrictions... to allow low-income foreign workers to affordably connect with their families during the coronavirus pandemic...
Applications that use Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology, including WhatsApp and Skype, have long been restricted to varying degrees in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Oman...