The British cheerleader: They stabbed me and tortured me in the UAE to wear a Qatar shirt

The British press revealed the extent of the atrocities and abuses suffered by British soccer fan Ali Issa Ahmed during his detention in the UAE for wearing the Qatar team shirt at the Asian Cup in Abu Dhabi between January 5 and February 1 and culminated Qatar as its title.

The British Guardian newspaper met with 26-year-old Ali Issa, a security guard in Wolverhampton, who returned to Britain and made serious statements saying he was tortured, beaten with a knife and deprived of sleep and food. "I was sure I was going to die and I thought I would kill them, .

The British cheerleader traveled to the UAE for his vacation in January and received a ticket for a match at the Asian Cup between Qatar and Iraq on the 22nd of that month. He wore the Qatari shirt because he did not know it was a punishable offense in the UAE. Imprisonment and a fine.

The newspaper said that she saw the effects of beatings with a knife by Ahmed and next to him and the wounds in his chest, indicating his appearance tired and shocked by what was suffered, in addition to breaking one of his teeth as a result of a strong judge from a security officer in the face, as he told the newspaper.

Ahmed told the newspaper that his problems began after he was called in by security in Abu Dhabi after the match in Qatar and Iraq, where he encouraged Annabi and wore his shirt and was asked why the shirt and asked him to deliver it did what he asked him, and then returned to the hotel in Dubai, but he noticed some men They chase him and see them in front of the hotel in the morning.

He said he went to the beach in the morning wearing another shirt for Qatar, unaware that he had committed a serious crime in the UAE. They put a plastic bag on it.

The newspaper said that the attackers left Ahmad after beating him, bleeding and vomiting. Despite being shocked by what happened, he drove to a gas station and asked for an ambulance, which arrived immediately after the police car and was interrogated at the station and then taken to hospital.

Ahmed was told that he was denied food, drink and sleep for several days before being transferred to a cell in a prison in Sharjah where he was stabbed with a knife by a prisoner. He stayed there until he was transferred on Wednesday (February 12th) to the plane he returned to Britain.

Ahmed told the newspaper that although he was required to speak and write Arabic, he was forced to sign papers and documents without reading anything, adding that he had received assistance from officials at the British Embassy during his detention.

After all this torment, Ahmed said that before boarding the plane back to the United Kingdom, an Emirati official at the airport said, "We are a very good country."

"I do not know how to get justice after all that has happened to me, but I will do as much as I can," he said.