Human Rights Watch has questioned the court of arbitration for sport’s decision to overturn Fifa’s lifetime ban on the former president of the Haitian Football Federation Yves Jean-Bart and claimed that some alleged victims were “threatened into silence”.
Jean-Bart – known as “Dadou” – was banned by Fifa’s ethics committee in November 2020 for alleged harassment and sexual abuse against female footballers after a series of investigations in the Guardian. The 75-year-old appealed to Cas in January 2021 and the case was heard by an arbitral panel at the end of March 2022.
