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Hello and you're very welcome to Long Reads, a Jackaban podcast where you look in

depth at political topics and thinkers. My name is Daniel Finn and the features editor

here at Jackaban and I'll be presenting the show. The World Cup begins this week in

guitar. The biggest sporting event on the planet is taking place this year under a

hail of controversy. The process that awarded guitar its role as host prompted

allegations of corruption. There has also been a barrage of media reporting, but the atrocious

working conditions on stadium construction sites. The following report comes from

DW News. To this day, Jamal Mula and his family don't know why Sujan suddenly died two

years ago. One thing's beyond doubt. His wasn't an isolated case. Thousands of mostly

young men have left for guitar and not returned alive. How did he die? We were told his teeth

suddenly started hurting and that he'd later died in hospital of a heart attack.

On Sujan's death certificate, it says, a cute heart failure due to natural causes,

wording commonly used to cover up other potential causes of migrant workers' deaths, such

as total exhaustion, or heat stroke, says Amnesty International. Officially, during the hottest

summer months, no one is allowed to work outside in the middle of the day. But where there's

no plaintiff, there's no judge. The violations are possible because most migrants find themselves

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