“We’ve now heard from the top that this is state policy,” a director at Human Rights Watch said.
"If sportswashing is going to increase my GDP by 1%, then we will continue doing sportswashing," Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in an interview with Fox News."We've now heard from the top that this is state policy," a director at Human Rights Watch said.
in an interview with Fox News that aired Wednesday night."I don't care. I have 1% growth in GDP from sport, and I am aiming for another 1.5%. Call it whatever you want."Sign up for NBC San Diego newsletters. "He's done more than say he doesn't care," Minky Worden, Human Rights Watch's director of global initiatives, told NBC News."He's really endorsed the idea of sportswashing as a way of covering up the country's very serious human rights abuses. We've now heard from the top that this is state policy."
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