Gay rights and equality campaigners said on Wednesday that Liverpool star Mohamed Salah has questions to answer after he was used for “political propaganda” by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov,.
Salah, who remains an injury doubt for Egypt’s opening World Cup match against Uruguay on Friday, posed with Kadyrov at the Grozny stadium on his country’s arrival at their base for the tournament.
Kadyrov’s regime has been criticised for alleged human rights abuses following reports of gay people being tortured and extrajudicial killings.
Kick It Out and Pride in Football released a joint statement, taking aim at football’s governing body FIFA, the Egyptian FA, and asking why Salah or his advisers did not consider the consequences of Sunday’s photographs.