{"id":158363,"date":"2025-05-14T18:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T22:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/05\/14\/hrw-report-migrant-workers-in-saudi-arabia-electrocuted-decapitated-and-falling-to-death-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T22:12:49","slug":"hrw-report-migrant-workers-in-saudi-arabia-electrocuted-decapitated-and-falling-to-death-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/05\/14\/hrw-report-migrant-workers-in-saudi-arabia-electrocuted-decapitated-and-falling-to-death-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HRW report: migrant workers in Saudi Arabia electrocuted, decapitated and falling to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We speak to Ahmed Benchemsi, advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa at Human Rights Watch, which has published a report on grave abuses committed on construction sites in Saudi Arabia. HRW said \u00ab\u00a0scores of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia die in gruesome yet avoidable workplace-related accidents, including falling from buildings, electrocution, and even decapitation\u00a0\u00bb and warned the risks could increase as the building of stadiums for the 2034 World Cup gathers pace.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We speak to Ahmed Benchemsi, advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa at Human Rights Watch, which has published a report on grave abuses committed on construction sites in Saudi Arabia. HRW said \u00ab\u00a0scores of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia die in gruesome yet avoidable workplace-related accidents, including falling from buildings, electrocution, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-158363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}