• Human Rights Watch and FairSquare have written to Fifa
• Former Qatar’s World Cup employee is on hunger strike

Fifa has been urged to intervene in the case of Abdullah Ibhais, a former employee of Qatar’s World Cup committee who is on a 21-day hunger strike after being detained by police in Doha, otherwise its human rights policy will not be “worth the paper it is written on”.

The warning comes from Human Rights Watch and FairSquare, who have written to Fifa for a second time to say they believe Ibhais’s confession was coerced and that he has been singled out because of his support for migrant workers in Qatar.

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian.