In February 2020, the family picked up the body of their 20-year-old Bishal Rayhan's at the airport. The company did not say anything beside that he died in a car accident in Qatar's capital Doha on January 27, 2020. - He had only worked in Qatar for nine months when this happened, says his 47-year-old father Bipul Rayhan. After receiving the body, Bishal's mother has been paralyzed and the father is now trying to survive with his disabled wife and the two children in Bhairab in Kishorganj in central Bangladesh.

Manjur Kha Pathan from Nepal died in Qatar on February 9, 2021, at the age of 40 years. His death certificate issued states that the heart disease was “unspecified” and it does not provide information about the underlying causes. His brother Ahmed Hussain told Amnesty International that Manjur worked as a truck driver and that he was healthy. They often talked about his job, and he complained about long working days, the heat and that the air conditioning in the truck was often broken. But he never complained about his health. Because he died at home and not at work, the case is not covered by the compensation laws in Qatar.

Zohorul’s death in Qatar couldn’t have happened at a worse time. The family was even before his death passing through economic hardship.  They had borrowed money from a local NGO, moneylenders and relatives to send Zohorul to Qatar to work as a cleaner. Rina Akter, elder sister, and Sharmin Akter, younger sister, of Zohorul claimed that their only brother did not have any previous health complications or diseases in Bangladesh.

On December 18, 2020, 24-year-old Emamodin Miya Hawari died. Even today, his father has a hard time believing that his son took his life, and the father is wondering if he was forced to do so. - What he told me was that he planned to get married as soon as he returns from Qatar. He wanted a wedding with drums and fanfares as soon as he earns some cash. Every time he sent money home, he urged me to start with the necessary wedding preparations. But instead of a wedding, I had to arrange a funeral when he came home in a coffin, says Islam Miya Dhobi.

When they spoke during the week before his death, Binod Kumar Sah often asked about his youngest son, who had not yet turned one year old. He had never met his son and was looking forward to it. - Now the son is fatherless. He was never allowed to see his father. We have all become orphans, says the widow Sunita Kumari. Sunita describes their financial situation as “pathetic”. If children could go to school for free, there could be a future. - I not only lost my husband, I also lost the opportunities to live. And I do not accept that my husband, who was only 36, would have taken his life. Never!

It has been over two decades since Khina Bista's husband, Amit Karki, first traveled to Qatar. – Quite honestly, we have not seen him much since we got married 12 years ago. I raised our two children here at home but they never got to know their father and now he is dead, says Khina Bista. After a day of work, he complained of pain and was driven to the hospital by his colleagues. – He was dead when they arrived. We were told that it was a heart attack, says Khina Bista. The family has received 700,000 nepalese rupees from the authorities and another 1.4 million rupees from the life insurance.