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8 Dec 2022

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Qatar 2022: Avaaz campaign group protest in FIFA president's hometown to push for migrant worker compensation

"Activists supporting Qatar World Cup migrant workers protest in FIFA boss' home town" 08 Dec 2022

An activist group erected protest billboards in FIFA boss Gianni Infantino's Swiss home town of Brig on Wednesday to demand the world football body compensate migrant workers for alleged human rights abuses in Qatar, host of the World Cup...

The protest by the Avaaz campaign group included an Infantino impersonator holding a World Cup trophy...

FIFA had no direct comment on the protest but pointed to comments by Infantino last month hailing a fund that Qatar set up in 2018 that has paid out $350 million to workers in cases mainly linked to late or non-payment of wages...