Human Rights Watch and FairSquare have written to FifaFormer Qatar
World Cup employee is on hunger strikeFifa has been urged to intervene in the case of Abdullah Ibhais, a former employee of Qatar’s World Cup committee, who is on a 21-day hunger strike after being detained by
police in Doha, otherwise its
Human Rights policy will not be “worth the paper it is written on”.
![‘Suspicion and paranoia’: Fifa told to demand fair trial for Abdullah Ibhais](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/92a3228c0d643a23777b699c72b35bc9ee425081/0_200_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=2ccdd82db206e37782946f2e3460fd20)
The warning comes from Human Rights Watch and FairSquare, who have written to
FIFA for a second time to say they believe Ibhais’s confession was coerced and that he has been singled out because of his support for migrant workers in Qatar.