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Qatar's member of the government, Sheikh Thamer Al Thani, believes the content of the recent protests around the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is wrong. “We support the associations and players who use their platform to stand up for human rights. However, your criticism of the 2022 World Cup is misplaced, ”said Thamer Al Thani, Deputy Director of the Government Communications Office of the State of Qatar. According to him, the criticism lies in the fact that “many people do not have all the information about the changes that Qatar has already made”.
Several nations, including Germany and Norway, campaigned for human rights at the start of the World Cup qualification in Europe in March and pointed out the situation with protest actions. Thamer Al Thani pointed to “significant progress” in Qatar and said: “We would like football associations, fan associations and players to look more closely at Qatar to try to understand the process a country like Qatar has to go through in order to to revise its labor laws. "
The soccer World Cup, which is scheduled to take place from November 21 to December 18, 2022, was awarded to Qatar in 2010. The rich emirate has come under international criticism for the exploitation of guest workers. According to research by the Guardian, more than 6,500 workers from five Asian countries have died in Qatar in the past ten years. The government there said that reforms in recent years had significantly improved the situation of workers.