Human rights lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair was jailed for 15 years under a cruel terrorism law in Saudi Arabia. He has defended many peaceful activists, including jailed blogger Raif Badawi, and has challenged the widespread crackdown on human rights across the country.

Waleed is one of 12 individuals and communities featured in Write for Rights, Amnesty International’s global letter-writing campaign. Take action today: www.amnesty.org/writeforrights

Political cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar “Zunar” Ulhaque faces a long-term prison sentence after posting tweets condemning the jailing of an opposition leader in Malaysia. The government is going to enormous lengths to silence dissent and debate, and lock up its critics.

Zunar is one of 12 individuals and communities featured in Write for Rights, Amnesty International’s global letter-writing campaign. Take action today: www.amnesty.org/writeforrights

Qatar's population is increasing by 20 people every hour. Most of those arriving in the country are low-income construction workers from Asia. These migrant workers have been recruited to help build massive projects worth up to US$220 billion, as part of Qatar's drive to create a regional and global hub. Many of these projects will contribute, directly or indirectly, to the staging of the 2022 World cup.

This news video was produced to coincide with the Amnesty International report, The Dark Side of Migration: Spotlight on Qatar's construction sector ahead of the World Cup. It looks at how a permissive legal framework and complex contractual chains in Qatar allows unscrupulous employers to exploit and abuse migrant workers - in some cases amounting to forced labour.

Find out more here: http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/qatar-end-corporate-exploitation-migrant-construction-workers-2013-11-17