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Sportswashing: From the Beijing Genocide Games to Qatar’s FIFA World Cup Migrant Workers’ Crisis
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Speakers
Labor rights activist and blogger
Malcolm Bidali is the co-founder of Migrant Defenders, a Kenya-based civil society organization defending the rights of migrant workers in the Middle East. Bidali is a former migrant worker in Qatar who became a prominent whistleblower by anonymously
documenting and
exposing brutal conditions for migrant laborers in the lead up to Qatar’s hosting of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. In May 2021, Bidali was arrested by Qatari security services following a phishing attack to unmask his identity. He was held incommunicado and in solitary confinement for nearly a...
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Tibetan activist and community organizer
President of the Norwegian Football Federation, lawyer, and human rights advocate
Monday May 23, 2022 17:10 - 18:00 CEST
Lille Sal