World Cup finals: Why is Qatar 2022 controversial?

One and a fractional cardinal fans from each implicit the satellite are expected to sojourn Qatar to ticker the World Cup finals, which commencement connected 20 November.

What are Qatar's laws connected same-sex relationships?

Homosexual acts are amerciable successful Qatar due to the fact that they are considered to beryllium immoral nether Islamic Sharia law.

Punishments see fines, situation sentences of up to 7 years - and adjacent decease by stoning.

Qatar's World Cup organisers authorities "everyone is welcome", and assertion nary 1 volition beryllium discriminated against.

However, Qatar 2022 main enforcement Nasser al Khater insists the authorities volition not alteration its laws connected homosexuality and has asked visitors to "respect our culture".

He has said that successful Qatar immoderate nationalist displays of affection betwixt couples - whether cheery oregon consecutive - are frowned upon.

A caller Human Rights Watch report says that Qatari information forces are continuing to apprehension citizens who are gay, lesbian, and transgender, sometimes forcing them to acquisition conversion therapy.

Qatar's authorities said the study contains mendacious allegations.

Fifa wrote to the 32 teams competing astatine the World Cup telling them to "now absorption connected the football". The missive said shot should not beryllium "dragged" into ideological oregon governmental "battles", oregon "hand retired motivation lessons".

In response, 10 European shot associations - including those of England and Wales - said that "human rights are cosmopolitan and use everywhere".

England skipper Harry Kane and the captains of the different 9 teams volition deterioration "One Love" armbands to protestation against Qatar's anti-homosexuality laws.

How are overseas workers treated successful Qatar?

An estimated 30,000 workers from countries specified arsenic India, Bangladesh, Nepal and the Philippines person been gathering facilities for the World Cup finals, including caller stadiums, hotels, roads and the metropolis successful which the last lucifer volition instrumentality place.

Qatar has built 7 stadiums for the finals, including the Khalifa stadium successful the superior Doha

In February 2021, the Guardian said 6,500 workers had died successful Qatar since it won its World Cup bid, utilizing information supplied by embassies successful Qatar.

However, the Qatar authorities said the full was misleading, due to the fact that immoderate of those who died would had been surviving and moving successful Qatar for respective years, and could person died from aged property oregon different earthy causes.

It said authoritative records amusement that betwixt 2014 and 2020, determination were 37 deaths among labourers astatine World Cup stadium operation sites, lone 3 of which were "work-related".

The International Labour Organisation says this is an underestimate, due to the fact that Qatar doesn't number deaths from bosom attacks and respiratory nonaccomplishment arsenic work-related - adjacent though these tin effect from moving successful precocious temperatures.

It estimates that 50 overseas labourers died and much than 500 others were earnestly injured successful Qatar successful 2021 alone, and different 37,600 suffered mild to mean injuries.

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Why was Qatar chosen arsenic the World Cup host?

In 2010, Qatar clinched the rights to the World Cup aft winning a ballot of Fifa's 22 enforcement members, beating bids from the US, South Korea, Japan and Australia.

It is the archetypal Arab federation to big the tournament.

Qatar was accused of paying Fifa officials £3m ($3.7m) successful bribes to unafraid their backing, but was cleared aft a two-year investigation.

At the time, Fifa's then-chairman, Sepp Blatter, supported the bid, but present says it was a "mistake" to grant the World Cup to Qatar.

What tin World Cup fans expect successful Qatar?

Qatar has built 7 stadiums specifically for the finals, arsenic good arsenic much than 100 caller hotels, a caller metro and caller roads.

As a blimpish Muslim country, drinking successful Qatar is usually restricted to edifice bars. A pint of brew tin outgo £10 ($13).

World Cup organisers say that during the finals, intoxicant volition beryllium served wrong stadiums for 3 hours earlier matches and for 1 hr afterwards.

Alcoholic drinks volition besides beryllium disposable successful a 40,000-capacity instrumentality portion successful Doha, and determination volition beryllium zones wherever fans tin spell to sober up.

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How blistery is it successful Qatar?

At the clip of the finals, the somesthesia successful Qatar is usually astir 25C (77F).

Had the contention been held successful June and July, arsenic usual, matches would person been played successful temperatures exceeding 40C, and perchance reaching 50C.

Qatar initially projected hosting the finals during the summertime successful air-conditioned enclosed stadiums, but the program was rejected.