"450 jobless Indian workers forced to beg in Saudi, shifted to detention centres," 19 Sep 2020

Thanks to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and no jobs to survive, 450 Indian workers in Saudi Arabia are out on the road, begging...

the workers said their only crime was begging after Saudi authorities identified them by going to their rented rooms and shifted them to the Shumaisi detention centre in Jeddah...

Social worker and MBT leader Amjed Ullah Khan said the local authorities shifted the workers to the detention centres after ascertaining that they had been overstaying. "Those who did not have the 'aqama' (work permit) were later taken to the detention centres," [said Khan].