World Cup migrant workers exposing exploitation are being identified by informants operating under cover within their camps, activists claim.
Researchers investigating migrants' conditions have found they are being quizzed themselves by workers on stadium construction sites in Qatar, The Mail on Sunday has been told.
The activists say questions were put to them in a formal manner that suggested their interrogators were professionally trained.
Equidem, the global human-rights and labour-rights organisation which works extensively in Qatar, has been told by sources that these under-cover security officials have been recruited in migrant workers' host countries.
'We are in constant contact with workers in Qatar,' said Mustafa Qadri, Equidem's chief executive. 'And so, while there is an element of speculation, we know that people from Kenya, from India, from Nepal, who look and talk like any normal workers, are basically asking questions of people that are known to be activists.'
The suspected informants have been identified within the residential camps set up to build Qatar's infrastructure ahead of November's tournament, with their fairly recent arrival sparking suspicion among other workers on site.
It is thought they are being placed in the residential camps not only to extract information about the work of human-rights bodies, but to identify any potential strike action and prevent terrorist activity.
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