A BBC journalist has spoken of his ordeal after he was arrested for trying to film the appalling conditions of the migrant workers getting Qatar ready for 2022 World Cup.

Mark Lobel, the organisation's Middle East business correspondent, and the translator, driver and cameraman were questioned by the authorities during a PR trip after they tried to gather extra material.

The journalist had been invited to Qatar by the prime minister's office to show off the country's migrant worker accommodation. He was one of a dozen members of the international press.

The team had been on their way to film some Nepali workers when they were surrounded by eight white cars and speedily taken to a side road on Saturday, May 2.

"Our arrest was dramatic ... A dozen security officers frisked us in the street, shouting at us when we tried to talk. They took away our equipment and hard drives and drove us to their headquarters."

Telegraph