Amnesty International warned on Monday that this summer’s World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico risks becoming a “stage for repression”, urging FIFA and host nations to protect rights. FIFA said it aims to ensure all participants feel safe, included and free to exercise their rights.

  • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    FIFA has held world cups under 3 different dictatorships. I hate trump but i love how he’s suddenly the straw that broke the camels back. Argentina was flying political prisoners out into the ocean and leaving them there and Putin was tossing competition out windows with bullets in their brains but now every football fan has a moral leg to stand on.

    Most corrupt sport on the planet and the fans are all complicit