The ITUC has expressed serious concern for the safety and welfare of two human rights investigators, Ghimire Gundev and Krishna Upadhyaya, in Qatar. The two British nationals were being followed and harassed by Qatari security agents as they documented extreme violations of workers’ rights in the Gulf state. They then disappeared as they prepared to leave their hotel for Doha airport to leave the country on 31 August. Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary said “Qatar seems to think that creating a climate of fear and intimidation will somehow turn the eyes of the world away from its modern slavery economy. Hundreds of migrant workers, many of them women, are languishing in Doha’s detention centres simply for running away from abusive and violent employers. Foreign journalists have been detained for trying to report the truth, and state repression is actually increasing in a country that already showed no respect for basic human rights and legal standards.” Norwegian based human rights ngo GNRD, the employer of the two investigators, is “deeply concerned that these employees, both British citizens, may have been subjected to enforced disappearance and are currently at risk of torture”.