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Qatar : Retour sur l'arrestation de Malcolm Bidali pour avoir dénoncé les conditions de travail sur les chantiers de la Coupe du monde
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Qatar: Kenyan activist Malcolm Bidali reflects on his detention and shares experiences about migrant workers’ living and working conditions
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Qatar: Malcolm Bidali reflects on his detention, intimidation & being charged with a crime after highlighting migrant worker abuses
What happens when no one’s looking? Malcolm Bidali reflects on the last 12 weeks of detention, intimidation, and being charged for a ‘crime’ of highlighting the plight of lower-income migrant workers like himself
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Kenyan labour rights activist leaves Qatar after paying hefty fine for publishing "false news"
Malcolm Bidali, a Kenyan national, was forcibly disappeared by Qatari authorities on 4 May and held in solitary confinement for a month. The 28-year-old is a security guard, blogger and activist who has been vocal about the plight of migrant workers in Qatar
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Gulf: Migrants increasingly use social media to highlight labour abuse; arrest of activist & security guard Malcolm Bidali shows risks
Domestic workers on Facebook and TikTok, and construction workers on Twitter. Migrant workers across the Gulf have been taking to social media to protest long hours, low or unpaid wages, and passport confiscation, yet the arrest and prosecution against Malcolm Bidali highlights the risks to workers of speaking out.
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Qatar releases Kenyan rights activist after three weeks in solitary confinement
Migrant Rights said Malcolm Bidali, who was forcibly disappeared last month, had been "released from custody but the charges against him remain".
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Fingerprinting Campaign Targeting Malcolm Bidali
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Qatar: Rights group condemns charges against 'forcibly disappeared' Kenyan activist
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Qatar charges migrant activist Malcolm Bidali with taking payment to spread disinformation
Rights groups have called for Malcolm Bidali's release since he was detained by Qatari authorities on 5 May
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Response by GSS Certis
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Response by Temasek
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Rights group KHRC demands release of Kenyan activist detained in Qatar
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Malcolm Bidali makes contact with his mother in Jersey
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Qatar detains Kenyan worker outspoken on labour rights abuses
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Qatar detains Kenyan guard who wrote on laborers’ struggles
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Jersey mother fears for human rights activist son detained in Qatar
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Concerns over Qatar’s arrest of Kenyan security guard
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Where is Malcolm? Qatar urged to release worker activist held for breaching ‘security laws’
Kenyan security guard, activist and blogger Malcolm Bidali was taken for questioning by Qatar state security services on May 4. Bidali has written about labour abuse faced by migrant workers in Qatar under his pen name Noah for the advocacy group Migrant-Rights.org
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Rights group fear for migrant activist ‘disappeared’ in Qatar
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Alarm after Kenyan migrant worker Malcolm Bidali arrested in Qatar
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Kenyan Migrant Worker and Activist Malcolm Bidali Arrested in Qatar
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PRESS RELEASE: Qatar: Fears grow for forcibly disappeared migrants’ rights activist
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Rights groups ask Qatar to disclose whereabouts of migrant rights commentator
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