Thread by @MigrantRights

Migrant-Rights.org is deeply concerned that the owner of Fundament SPC construction, Ali Al-Derazi, has been officially appointed as the new president of #Bahrain’s National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR).
alwatannews.net/article/940123…

As MR reported last year, Fundament SPC, the company Al-Derazi presided over, left several hundred workers unpaid for up to 8 months, confiscated their passports, and pushed them into despair.

https://twitter.com/MigrantRights/status/1266447681397960705

After weeks of protests and demonstrations at the Ministry of Labour, the company finally agreed to pay 35% of owed wages and return flights, with the remainder to be paid in 3 months.

https://twitter.com/MigrantRights/status/1277887513055633409

Fundament is yet to pay the returned workers the remainder of their wages. Last February, workers from the company sent us a letter pleading to the officials in Bahrain to intervene.
migrant-rights.org/2021/02/non-pa…

Al-Derazi’s appointment contradicts the NIHR’s mission to promote and protect human rights. We call on #Bahrain to rescind his appointment and ensure the swift return of the wages stolen from his workers.
For more on the Fundament case see below: migrant-rights.org/2020/06/presti…