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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Pramod Acharya and Michael Hudson

Revealed: Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabia

Illustration of a man working on an assembly line as he thinks about life back home on his farm with sheep, a woman and a boy

Momtaj Mansur wanted to go home to his mom and his brother and the pastures of Nepal’s southern plains. He felt like a prisoner, he says, in a roach-infested bunkhouse in Saudi Arabia, out of work, hungry and deep in debt.

The 23-year-old had come to Riyadh, the Saudi capital, in 2021 to work for one of the world’s biggest companies: Amazon.

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