The largest Finnish newspaper found out what the Qataris did - and canceled the trip of its reporters Israel today

It's not just sports:

the biggest newspaper in Finland has decided not to send its commentators and reporters to the World Cup.

The reason: the newspaper discovered that Qatar expelled foreign workers from Africa and Asia from the house where the Finnish journalists were supposed to stay.

Arki Kilmanen, head of the sports section of Helsingin Snowmat, told Reuters that he debated for a long time whether to send the journalists "because of restrictions on the media in Qatar", but decided only recently after it was discovered that Qatar had thrown out thousands of foreign workers from apartments in the Al-Sad and Al- Sawmill to make room for journalists and tourists.

"It is not a logical situation if we go there to report critically, and at the same time sleep in beds in a place from where other people were thrown for us," said Kilmanen, who was supposed to head the delegation.

This will be the first time in decades that the newspaper will report on the huge tournament from afar.

Kilmanen added that the risk of whitewashing Qatar's image through sports was too great.

"This kind of games should never be organized again," he said.

Dortmund fans protest against the World Cup in Qatar, photo: AFP

Hertha Berlin fans also participated in the protest, photo: AFP

It has been many weeks that protest events against the World Cup in Qatar have been going on throughout the Western world in view of the accusations of corruption that made its existence possible, and moreover - considering Qatar's attitude to human rights.

A long list of municipalities in France decided to boycott the World Cup in the public space, so cities like Paris, Marseille, Lille, Bordeaux, Reims and Strasbourg will not hold mass funds for fans.

This is what the City of London and the Luxembourg cities also decided.

Whereas in the German Bundesliga, fans competed in the size of signs calling for a boycott of the World Cup in Qatar.

The increase to make the Australian soccer team, which will play in group D in the World Cup.

The members of the team recorded a special video in which they criticized the Qatari attitude towards the foreign workers and the LGBT community. The members of the team called for taking care of the workers' situation and abolishing the criminal punishment for the members of the gay community.

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