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Ex-U.S. Captain Becky Sauerbrunn, Canadian Star Jessie Fleming Join 100 Female Soccer Players Calling For FIFA To Drop Saudi Aramco Deal
Ex-U.S. Captain Becky Sauerbrunn, Canadian Star Jessie Fleming Join 100 Female Soccer Players In Open Letter Calling For FIFA To Drop Saudi Aramco Deal
It highlighted the case of Salma al-Shehab, a former dental hygienist PhD student at the UK’s Leeds University and a mother of two, who is serving a 27-year prison sentence for retweeting in favour of free speech. The letter also cited activist Loujain al-Hathloul who was abducted in the UAE and transferred back to Saudi Arabia in 2018, where she was sentenced to five years and eights months in prison in late 2020 for defending women’s right to drive and calling for an end to the patriarchal male guardianship system. “Imagine LGBTQ+ players, many of whom are heroes of our sport, being expected to promote Saudi Aramco during the 2027 World Cup, the national oil company of a regime that criminalises the relationships that they are in and the values they stand for?,” it read.
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