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World Cup workers: Beatings, jail and deportation

Threats of rape. Jailed for asking your employer to pay the promised salary. Beatings. Migrants working on World Cup projects tell stories of horrific abuse.

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13 July, 2023

“You have just to do your work and suffer alone”

USM Qatar provided staff to the Netherlands and United States World Cup team hotels, as well as a hotel accommodating Fifa personnel during the tournament. Workers tell of rampant labour abuses at the company.

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12 June, 2023

The illusion of legacy and reforms

Three teenagers worked as security guards on World Cup venues throughout the tournament. But were never paid by their employer, Stark Security Services, a company owned by persons with close ties to the ruling family and who stand accused of funding Al Qaeda terrorists.

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28 May, 2023

The smile Lukashenko couldn’t wipe

Footballer and journalist Aleksiander Ivulin spent two years in prison for ‘protests’. Despite human rights abuses of its citizens, including footballers, and state interference of the Belarusian Football Federation, Uefa and Fifa have not banned the country from international play. In fact, the Lukashenko-run federation’s biggest source of income is Uefa and Fifa funding.

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12 April, 2023

World Cup security guards: Unpaid and exploited

They haven’t been paid salaries for the last two months. Meet two African security guards that work for a company that has several Fifa and World Cup assignments during the tournament in Qatar.

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23 November, 2022

Supporting the perpetrator

President of the French olympic committee (CNOSF), Brigitte Henriques, is accused of not taking action towards sexual abuse during her time as head of women’s football and vice president of the FFF. Josimar can reveal that she openly supported a senior officer convicted for sexual harassment.

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28 September, 2022

“They say we have to pay 4500 riyals to change employer”

A company directly and heavily involved with the World Cup in Qatar, with thousands of employees, is blackmailing its workers.

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23 September, 2022

40 years of silence

For years Noël Le Graët, president of the French Football Federation, and other senior officials at the federation have been covering up multiple cases of sexual abuse, including abuse of underage players.

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16 September, 2022

Hell on earth

For two decades players, referees and employees of the Haitian football federation were forced to have sex with visiting football officials. One of the visitors who accepted this “gift”, was the then Fifa president Sepp Blatter.

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19 May, 2022

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World Cup workers: Beatings, jail and deportation

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“You have just to do your work and suffer alone”

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The illusion of legacy and reforms

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The smile Lukashenko couldn’t wipe

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World Cup security guards: Unpaid and exploited

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Supporting the perpetrator

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“They say we have to pay 4500 riyals to change employer”

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40 years of silence

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Hell on earth

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Saved by the Pope

“Everyone who hears the name is afraid”

Guilt by association

“You play like wild pigs”