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GAY, TRANSGENR FANS ‘WELE’ AT 2022 WORLD CUP, SAYS QATAR

LGBT issu are sensive Qatar, and homosexual acts are still illegal. DOHA, Qatar — A top Qatari World Cup official has said that transgenr and gay fans would be weled to the 2022 tournament but strsed that visors would have to rpect Qatari ctoms. Homosexual acts are banned Qatar but the law around transgenr people is unclear and the issue is seldom addrsed public life or by the thori.

A webse that published a story 2016 by an anonymo Qatari thor about beg gay, later went briefly offle the emirate.

Dpe homosexualy beg illegal Qatar, officials have claimed that the untry is safe for LGBTQ fans and players to e and vis durg the World Cup. Homosexualy is illegal Qatar, and punishable wh a jail sentence of up to seven years. One gay French football and his partner were attacked and robbed durg the tournament.

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Telegram channel Operdra – who first reported the news – said: “Even though the jured are homosexuals, do not jtify the monsters who beat him.

Related: French football match stopped bee of homophobic chantg. What do Qatar's law say about homosexualy?Qatari law lls for a prison sentence of one to three years for "ducg or scg a male or a female any way to m illegal or immoral actns".It also lls for the same punishment for whoever is "stigatg" or "scg" a male to "m sodomy". Click to subscribe to the Sky News Daily wherever you get your podstsWhat else has recently been said about the Gulf state's stance on homosexualy?Former Qatari footballer Khalid Salman - an ambassador for the World Cup - scribed homosexualy as "damage the md".Ahead of the tournament, he told German public broadster ZDF's news programme Hte Journal that beg gay is "haram" - or forbidn Arabic.Mr Salman also said homosexualy "is spirual harm".Foreign Secretary Jam Cleverly faced strong cricism the UK for tellg gay fans who vis Qatar to not stage any protts.He said overseas travellers should "rpect the laws of their host untry" - but was acced of handg gay fans travellg to Qatar a "slap the face".In a further terview wh Sky News, Mr Cleverly said: "The are Mlim untri, they have a very different cultural startg pot [om] ."I thk 's important, when you're a visor to a untry, that you rpect the culture of your host natn."His ments provoked fierce cricism, wh the mister beg acced of beg "shockgly tone-af".Read more:England make wng start to World Cup mpaignEngland open World Cup by takg the kneeMeanwhile, there was "ntempt" exprsed for FIFA after plans by England and Wal to wear anti-discrimatn armbands were dropped unr threat of sportg sanctn.In a statement, the Football Supporters' Associatn said: "Today we feel betrayed.