# Qatar tells World Cup visitors that same-sex relations remain criminalised

Date: 2022

## The fact

In November 2022 Qatari officials told World Cup visitors that same-sex relations remain criminalised, a completed public legal-warning cluster Tamim’s government owned.

## Context

The penal code predates Tamim. He hosted the tournament without a repeal. FIFA rainbow-armband fights are neighbouring.

Beer ban is 18 November. World Cup opening is 20 November.

The emir of Qatar is head of state and, in practice, of government under the 2004 constitution as applied. He does not write FIFA statutes, UN Security Council resolutions, Hamas military orders, or ILO conventions by himself.

## Evidence and sources

Amiri Diwan of Qatar carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [protection of minority rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights): a completed public warning that same-sex relations remain crimes is a rights-restriction instrument at a global event.

## What is established and what is not

Established: November 2022 Qatari official warnings that same-sex relations remain criminalised during the World Cup, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later fan-arrest coefficient from that week, or that the penal code was written that month.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Officials warned. FIFA ran matches. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Qatar tells World Cup visitors that same-sex relations remain criminalised, not a later speech about Qatar tells World Cup visitors that same-sex relations remain criminalised.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Qatar tells World Cup visitors that same-sex relations remain criminalised on 2022-11-08 is not a licence to treat every later Amiri Diwan of Qatar communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Qatar tells World Cup visitors that same-sex relations remain criminalised into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He hosted without repealing the criminal law. Officials warned. FIFA ran matches. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Tamim bin Hamad Al: https://factrail.ai/people/tamim-bin-hamad-al-thani

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights
- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/qatar-world-cup-lgbt-laws-2022-11/
- https://www.diwan.gov.qa/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/qa-lgbt-world-cup-2022