Qatar’s ruler stated on Tuesday that complaint over his nation’s internet hosting of the FIFA World Cup was once “slander”.
“Since we had the honour of hosting the World Cup, Qatar has been the target of an unprecedented campaign that no other host country has suffered,” stated Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, chief of the tiny Gulf state.
FIFA controversially awarded the 2022 World Cup to Qatar in 2010, with Qatar’s rulers spending tens of billions of euros at the tournament which can happen from 20 November to 18 December.
The energy-rich, Middle Eastern nation has been again and again criticised over the medicine of migrant staff, ladies and the LGBT+ neighborhood within the run-up to the World Cup, which is costing €6.84 billion.
On Monday, the NGO Human Rights Watch claimed that Qatar’s safety forces have arbitrarily arrested lesbian, homosexual, bisexual and transgender other folks, subjecting them to violence and ill-treatment in detention.
Deaths, alleged exploitation and abuses of migrants — most commonly from South East Asia and East Africa — operating in building also are underneath the highlight of human rights organisations and the media.
Qatar offered labour protections and ended the kafala machine, which prevents immigrant labourers from converting jobs, in accordance with those criticisms.
But some observers have wondered the effectiveness of those adjustments, with the minimal salary amounting to simply over €1 an hour and doubts whether or not reforms to the kafala machine came about actually.
“Initially, we dealt with this subject in good faith, and we even considered that certain criticisms were positive and useful, helping us to develop aspects which should be developed”, stated Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani in Doha on Tuesday.
“But it soon became clear to us that the campaign persists, expands, there is slander and double standards, reaching a level of relentlessness that has left many wondering, sadly, on the real reasons and motivations of this campaign,” he added.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino stated not too long ago that the Qatar World Cup, the primary to be held in an Arab nation, will be the “best ever”.
