Thus, this decision, according to Amnesty International, confirms that “FIFA discards once again its own human rights policy and is complicit in a flagrant laundering of sports image”.
“In recent months, the Saudi authorities have intensified their brutal crackdown on free expression, sentencing people to prison terms of between 10 and 45 years simply for expressing themselves peacefully online.”remembered cockburn.
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“Authorities also continue to execute people for a wide range of crimes. In a single day last year, 81 people were sentenced to death, many of whom were tried in grossly unfair trials”continued from the organization of DD.HH. in its statement.
From International Amnesty They also criticized that, despite the fact that the FIFA announced revenue of almost 7,000 million euros in the period 2019-2022 -and hopes to enter 11,000 million in the next four years- “has not yet agreed a compensation fund for migrant workers in Qatar”.
the english journal Guardian revealed that some 6,500 employees diedwhile since Saudi Arabia there was talk of at least 400.
As already happened with Qatarorganizer of World Cup 2022, Saudi Arabia it was heavily criticized by human rights groups, accusing it of trying to improve its image by organizing major sporting events.
The Asian country would also be interested, along with Greece and Egyptin being an organizer of the 2030 World Cupbeing a rival of the candidacies of Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Paraguay and of Spain, Portugal and Ukraine.
Source: Ambito

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