Qatar on Thursday denied allegations made by the human rights group Equidem regarding abuse and exploitation of workers who built and prepared the stadiums that will host the 2022 World Cup. Investigators from Equidem, a UK-based group, said that they spoke to workers who said that they had not been paid their wages, were forced to work in hot temperatures, and had not been given food. The rights group, which interviewed 60 workers and issued a 95-page report, also said that the workers were forced to pay illegal and extortionate recruitment fees to get their jobs and were prevented from chang…