A Candidate For FIFA President Is Linked To The Detention And Torture Of Soccer Players

"Sheikh Salman was involved in identifying as many as 150 athletes—including footballers—who participated in the demonstrations and referring them to the country’s security forces, who were then detained and tortured. “Since the peaceful anti-government protests of 2011, which the authorities responded to with brutal and lethal force, the al-Khalifa family have overseen a campaign of torture and mass incarceration that has decimated Bahrain’s pro-democracy movement.”

“If a member of Bahrain’s royal family is the cleanest pair of hands that Fifa can find, then the organisation would appear to have the shallowest and least ethical pool of talent in world sport.”

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