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With just under four weeks to go until the 2022 Men's FIFA World Cup begins, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused host nation Qatar of arbitrarily arresting and abusing LGBTQ people, despite calls for the country to update its laws on LGBTQ rights.
The human rights group on Monday said that it had documented six cases of "severe and repeated" beatings and five cases of sexual harassment in police custody between 2019 and 2022. CBS News has not independently verified these accounts.
According to the organization, Qatar's security forces have arrested people in public based on their gender expression, unlawfully searched their phones and mandated that detained trans women had to go to conversion therapy sessions as a condition of their release.
Same-sex "sexual conduct" between men is illegal in Qatar, although there is no outright ban on same-sex relationships between women, according to a U.S. State Department report from 2021. Men 16 years of age and older who engage in sexual conduct can be punished by up to seven years in prison, the State Department said. A man convicted of having sex with another bloke under the age of 16 can receive a life sentence, the
LGBTQ and other rights issues at World Cup a 'huge blemish' on FIFA: Hall of Famer
VANCOUVER — Carrie Serwetnyk, the first woman inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame and an advocate for equal rights in sports, is in Qatar for the 2022 Society Cup and says the event is "still trying to find its joy."
The tournament, which kicked off Sunday and runs until Dec. 18, has faced a swirl of concerns about LGBTQ and other human rights issues.
Captains of several European countries scrapped plans to wear a "OneLove" armband as a show of solidarity with the LGBTQ community after FIFA, soccer's governing body, warned they would deal with on-field sanctions. Media reports from Qatar also said some fans wearing rainbow attire were refused entry to the stadiums.
Serwetnyk, who is a gay female, said she feels very safe in Qatar during the World Cup, but acknowledges the concerns.
"If I lived here, that would probably be a unlike story. It's such a conservative country," she said. "I don't think that fear is imagined."
She has attended eight other FIFA World Cups and five FIFA Women’s World Cups. She said human rights issues have cast a "shadow" over the event this year.
"There's bee
LGBTQ and other rights issues at Earth Cup a ‘huge blemish’ on FIFA: Hall of Famer
VANCOUVER — Carrie Serwetnyk, the first gal inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame and an advocate for equal rights in sports,is in Qatar for the 2022 World Cup and says the event is “still trying to find its joy.”
The tournament, which kicked off Sunday and runs until Dec. 18, has faced a swirl of concerns about LGBTQ and other human rights issues.
Captains of several European countries scrapped plans to wear a “OneLove” armband as a show of solidarity with the LGBTQ community after FIFA, soccer’s governing body, warned they would face on-field sanctions. Media reports from Qatar also said some fans wearing rainbow attire were refused entry to the stadiums.
Serwetnyk, who is a gay woman, said she feels very safe in Qatar during the Nature Cup, but acknowledges the concerns.
“If I lived here, that would probably be a different story. It’s such a conservative country,” she said. “I don’t think that anxiety is imagined.”
She has attended eight other FIFA World Cups and five FIFA Women’s World Cups. She said hum
Collin Martin says ‘a ton of gay fans’ will visit Pride Houses at 2026 FIFA World Cup
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North Carolina FC’s Collin Martin chats on novel episode of Football v Homophobia Podcast; midfielder is the only out same-sex attracted player in U.S. men’s soccer; he’s excited for the 2026 FIFA Society Cup in his homeland and what it will offer LGBTQ+ supporters from across the globe; obey to the episode in full now…
By Jon Holmes
Collin Martin says having Event Houses in as many venue cities as feasible will be of “huge” importance at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Preparations carry on for the next edition of the most widespread sports event on Space body Earth. The tournament, expanded to feature 48 national teams, will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico from June 11 to July 19, 2026.
Martin is taking a keen interest. As the only American in the small group of out gay or bi professionals currently active in the men’s game, he wants his homeland to be truly welcoming for LGBTQ+ supporters during the World Cup summer.
Memories are still strong of the many barriers that fans from the community faced around Qatar 2022. Very few gay fans trave
HRW report alleges violence of LGBTQ Qataris
Testimony provided to the international rights team Human Rights Survey (HRW) has revealed shocking accounts of abuse suffered by gay, bisexual and transgender people in Qatar.
With the Planet Cup in Qatar now less than a month away, members of the LGBTQ community there hold detailed their experiences at the hands of Qatar's Preventive Security Department, an opaque security press whose duties include upholding law and direct in the Gulf state.
A bisexual gal in Qatar, a country where homosexuality is illegal, claims she was overcome until she clueless consciousness. A non-binary woman explained how she was forced to remove makeup from her encounter, while another gender nonconforming woman recalled how she was kept in solitary confinement and had her hair shaved off.
A third transgender chick told HRW how she was accused of "imitating women" and given a bloody nose and lips in a police car on her way to a detention center.
"I saw many other LGBT people detained there: two Moroccan lesbians, four Filipino gay men, and one Nepalese homosexual man," said the woman. "I was detained for three weeks without charge, and officers repeatedly sexually