{"id":80065,"date":"2019-02-13T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/02\/13\/was-infantino-just-too-busy-to-get-involved-in-freeing-hakeem-al-araibi-marina-hyde\/"},"modified":"2019-02-13T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T13:32:00","slug":"was-infantino-just-too-busy-to-get-involved-in-freeing-hakeem-al-araibi-marina-hyde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=80065","title":{"rendered":"Was Infantino just too busy to get involved in freeing Hakeem al-Araibi? | Marina Hyde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifa has a new human rights policy, yet its president appears to have been too caught up with other things to help out a footballer jailed under false pretencesTo the middle east, where Fifa\u2019s brilliant plan to bring peace via the medium of football continues apace. Last month, Qatar\u2019s extraordinary win in the Asian Cup was noisily welcomed by Fifa, presumably as retrospective justification for its decision to award the tiny Gulf state the 2022 World Cup. And in some of the regional countries currently blockading Qatar, the headlines on news coverage of the final show just how close the whole peace-dream is to becoming a reality. Which is to say, not very close, if they still can\u2019t mention the match winner in a match report. As the UAE\u2019s Gulf News had it: \u201cJapan come up short in Asian Cup final.\u201d That said, they did have two articles about the final. The headline on the other was \u201cThe Samurai\u2019s extra confidence caused their loss.\u201d Related: Privileged sport officials willing to sacrifice Hakeem al-Araibi&#8217;s life should be expunged | Craig Foster Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/feb\/13\/gianni-infantino-hakeem-al-araibi-fifa-human-rights\" target=\"_blank\">Was Infantino just too busy to get involved in freeing Hakeem al-Araibi? | Marina Hyde<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifa has a new human rights policy, yet its president appears to have been too caught up with other things to help out a footballer jailed under false pretencesTo the middle east, where Fifa\u2019s brilliant plan to bring peace via the medium of football continues apace. Last month, Qatar\u2019s extraordinary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}