Dozens of foreign workers have been sentenced to flogging and jail for unrest during protests over unpaid wages by Saudi Binladin Group several months ago, reports said on Tuesday.
Al-Watan newspaper and Arab News did not give the nationalities of the 49 workers, and foreign embassy staff in the kingdom contacted by AFP could not immediately provide details.
Al-Watan, which has followed the Binladin case since early last year, said an unidentified number were sentenced to four months' jail and 300 lashes for destroying public property and inciting unrest.
Others were jailed for 45 days by a court in Mecca.
Construction sector workers, chiefly at the Binladin Group and Saudi Oger, were left waiting for pay after a collapse in oil revenues left the kingdom unable to pay private firms it had contracted.
Arab News reported in May that "unpaid workers" had set fire to several Binladin Group buses in Mecca.
Authorities confirmed at the time that seven buses were burned but did not give the cause.
Althusser was right, historical minumum a shit that must be desyroyed
Elijah James
It might not be impossible but it'll never happen. You can experiment on your own country just don't do it to mine.
Jaxon Ward
You don't have a country you stupid piece of shit. Get raped to death.
Isaac Wilson
class consciousness on muslims is not possible, theres this thing called islam standing in the way. but who said arabs have to be muslim
Michael Rivera
Bunch of nobodies mad they don't got butt slaves.
Ethan Cooper
I'm sure you're going to win the working class lol Sorry but I'm not a young white girl living in the muslim ghettos all across Europe.
Lucas Baker
remember to report Holla Forums
Justin Wood
Are these THE binladins? Like of the Osama fame ?
Kayden Stewart
I just don't understand why you Nazis are so focused on random minorities and Jews instead of the actual people who control all the wealth, politics and media on the planet, i.e. international capitalists. Isn't it obvious to you how you're just being distracted from the real masters?
The one and only. They were also behind that deadly crane crash that killed all the hajjers. (Just learned about the crane connection today)
Cooper Baker
We're gonna start to see interesting things happen in Saudi Arabia increasingly. They're hemorrhaging money, they're getting BTFO in Yemen, they're implementing austerity measures whilst building themselves more mansions as the country starts to feel the unfamiliar sting of not being exorbitantly rich.
I mean I don't expect a socialist revolution but anything that makes the Saudi royal family squirm and breaks their infrastructure of spreading wahabbism is good in my book.
Jeremiah Martinez
all those protestors were definitely muslim and almost certainly not arab you know shit all
Jace Kelly
no youre not stop pretending
William Bell
its going to be pretty interesting to see in how the US reacts, the obama approach mightve been to cozy up to iran since they inevitably will take over as the influential power house in the middle east once the saudis lose power
Isaac Murphy
Be very afraid
Nicholas Harris
I want the 9/11 revengeance tour. But in the right country this time.
Isaac Harris
They aren't Muslims, you fucking retards. They're Indians and there are over 9 million foreign workers in Saudi Arabia who are all mostly striped of their rights
Andrew Taylor
They're all Muslims.
Jeremiah Scott
It is not uncommon to see people from yemen or oman working for saudis tho
Adam Johnson
A lot of them are Pakistanis and people from Muslim Majority countries, but yea they are not all muslism.
