By Tanner Garrity According to a recent report by The Athletic, protesters at the upcoming 2022 World Cup in Qatar could be sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison and face fines up to 100,000 Qatari riyals (a sum of about $25,000). This thanks to the purposely vague verbiage of a law passed in early 2020, which Amnesty International has declared “as an attack on freedom of expression…[that] could silence peaceful protest.” It reads: “Anyone who broadcasts, publishes, or republishes false or biased rumours, statements, or news, or inflammatory propaganda, domestically or abroad, with th…
