Qatari Government Begins Arresting World Cup Reporters 11 Years
Before World Cup In Qatar  These Qataris don't wait around. The
World Cup is set to kick off in Arabia during the summer of
2022, when temperatures will exceed the boiling point of steel
and most life forms will already be extinct. So why not start
oppressing reporters now?  On April 1, sports journalist
Christophe Cerf and cameraman Yvan Thorimbert from Radio
Televison Suisse were filming "landscape shots" for a report on
Qatar's staging of the World Cup when local flatfoots stopped
them, slapped on the cuffs and confiscated their equipment. The
reporters were held against their will for almost two weeks and
interrogated several times.  From AFP:  [T]hey were stopped by a
police patrol at Mesaieed and taken to a local police station,
where they were handcuffed and interrogated for several hours.
After being transferred to a station in Wakra for further
interrogations, they went in front of a judge in Doha, where
"they had to pay a fine, without