FIFA’s top officials urge the 32 teams preparing for this year’s football World Cup in Qatar to “focus on the football”
“Footballers with a conscience have a right to freedom of expression, just like everyone else.”
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UPDATE: Peter Tatchell released after being arrested in Qatar
“There were a total of nine officers surrounding and interrogating me about where I was from, who was helping me, where I was staying and when I was leaving Qatar.”
Peter Tatchell arrested in Qatar 26 days before football World Cup
LGBTQ+ and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has been arrested in Qatar today outside the National Museum of Qatar in Doha while staging a one-man protest against Qatar’s criminalisation of LGBTQ+ people