Did they regret it? Qatari authorities deny they will arrest those who carry LGBTQ flags during the World Cup

Qatar 2022 | #Radioestadio

🔻 Qatar World Cup Spokesperson

“Who wear the LGBTQ flag at the next soccer World Cup, you will be arrested for 7 u 11 years. We are in an Islamic country, our religion, beliefs and culture must be respected” pic.twitter.com/GQHF3EFlVF

– Radioestadio (@Radioestadio) June 24, 2022

The astonishment caused by the announcement of these strong measures, as well as the statements that accompany most of the articles that have been published on this matter, have led to portals of informative verification such as ‘Maldita.es’, a website specialized in the detection of hoaxes, to investigate the veracity of these facts.

The media outlet has contacted the Qatari embassy in Spain for some official source to rule on the words allegedly expressed by Nasser Al-Khater, that spokesman who, in reality, is the president of the organizing committee of the event.

As can be seen from some tweets, and as reproduced by certain digital newspapers en, Al-Khater reportedly stated the following: “Whoever wears the LGBTQ flag at the next soccer World Cup will be arrested for 7 u 11 years”.

“We are in an Islamic country, our religion, beliefs and culture must be respected,” he added. However, a spokesman for the aforementioned embassy has assured that those words have never come out of Al-Khater’s mouth.

Regardless of the true feelings of the main figures of the Qatari regime regarding the community LGTBQ, the truth is that it is impossible to find any interview or official statement by Al-Khater in which the quote from the previous paragraph appears.

It seems that we are dealing with a full-fledged disinformation exercise , which, on the other hand, should not overshadow the worrying history of outrages and attacks on fundamental rights that occur in a country with increasing weight and influence on the international scene.

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