Qatar cover-up? Doha detains German reporters investigating FIFA World Cup...

Journalists from Germany’s biggest television networks were reportedly detained, questioned and not allowed to leave Qatar for days while working on a story about FIFA President Sepp Blatter and Doha’s vexed nomination for the 2022 football World Cup.

Reporter from ARD German TV Florian Bauer tweeted that all of his, as well as colleagues’, materials for ARD and WDR networks have been erased and equipment destroyed.

He and his colleagues were interrogated by the police as well as secret service, Bauer claimed, and were forced to stay in the country for days.

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Bauer, a long-time critic of the longtime FIFA president, has been working on a documentary titled ‘The Selling of Football: Sepp Blatter and the Power of FIFA,’ which was scheduled to air on Monday in Germany.

 Reporters employed by two German channels were shooting parts of the documentary when they were arrested. Full story...

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