Now that Abdullah Ibhais sits happily in Oslo, enjoying the cool air, he can calmly reflect on the moment he realised his life was changing. The former 2022 World Cup worker – described by Amnesty as a Qatar whistleblower – had been going through the state’s legal process following his November 2021 arrest, and was at that point optimistic there had just been some misunderstanding.
Ibhais describes how, in the middle of the process, one Qatari official came out with the following.
