A pub in Easton that has always shown football on its screens will be screening this year’s World Cup with a heavy heart. Management at The Plough want to take a stance against FIFA and Qatar where thousands of migrant workers employed to build the stadiums for the World Cup died as a result of exploitative and unsafe working conditions.
And Qatar is a country where same-sex relationships are illegal and can result in a maximum penalty of death by stoning. Human Rights Watch reported in September six cases of severe beating and five of sexual harassment involving transgender women who were detained and then sent to conversion therapy.
Management at The Plough are taking donations during the World Cup for charities that promote human rights in Qatar and said that as a pub they will match everything they raise. They will be showing the World Cup in the pub for the first week but have not decided if they will continue after that.
