A new report finds authorities in the UAE have arrested and deported up to 15,000 Pakistani workers, many of them Shia Muslims, without formal charges. New Lines Magazine reports many of the workers were deported with little more than the clothes on their backs, without being given the opportunity to withdraw funds from banks or settle their financial affairs — even after spending years or decades working in the UAE.

Meanwhile, an estimated 20,000 seafarers remain stranded in the Persian Gulf amid the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. This is an Indian sailor who returned to India Thursday after he spent weeks trapped at an Iranian port while U.S. and Israeli missiles and drones exploded around his ship.

Tithi Chiranjeevi: “We did not have internet, and there was no way to communicate with our families back home. We were quite tense, and our relatives also were under a lot of duress back home. Subsequently, even getting food became difficult. Around 200 people, Indians, are still stranded there.”

We’ll speak to representatives of two maritime workers’ unions later in the broadcast.