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  Questions raised over paid protest timed for Qatari leader’s No 10 visit

  23 July, by WATERSON Jim

  Casting agency offers £20 per head for extras to stand outside Downing Street during emir of Qatar’s visit
  A casting agency advertised for paid extras to come and stand outside the gates of Downing Street when the emir of Qatar visits on Tuesday, amid accusations that the country’s Gulf rivals (...)

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  Football: Why Is the 2022 World Cup Being Held in a Country That Practices Modern-Day Slavery?

  23 July 2014, by CHEN Michelle

  This summer, the populist fervor of Brazil’s World Cup sparked riotous street protests against the country’s economic hierarchy. But the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is being built in an even more unequal country, and there will likely be little public unrest, just vast expanses of deserts and (...)

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  Will Qatar’s World Cup be built on a graveyard?

  5 October 2013, by COHEN Nick

  Unless Qatar allows foreign workers to form unions, Sepp Blatter must prevent it from hosting the World Cup.
  There is a lot to be said for keeping politics out of sport. Only totalitarian states or people with authoritarian personalities politicise everything: whom they love and whom they (...)