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A Danish journalist was instructed by the Qatari police to remove a OneLove armband whereas filming a World Cup section in Doha. Jon Pagh, from Danish station TV 2 Sport, was filming outside the Denmark squad’s lodge when he was stopped by native police.

In a video shared on social media, the officer shall be seen informing the journalist that he ought to take off the armband, which has been controversial in the midst of the FIFA World Cup 2022 as homosexuality is in opposition to the regulation in Qatar.

Jon Pagh refused to take it off, saying, “I respect that you just’re telling me that, nevertheless I cannot take it off. Why is it not allowed? Is it because of the colours?”

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The policeman acknowledged “yeah” sooner than reacting by pushing away the digicam. “It's only one love,” Jon Pagh protested.

“It’s merely respecting everybody.”

The Danish journalist later acknowledged, “I really feel that after we're down proper right here, we've got to be cautious about doing activism, and we've got to be significantly cautious about scary circumstances, however it was on no account in my ideas that it'd provoke one thing.”

“I personally am moreover very cautious to not do activism, nevertheless it’s the similar political message that’s in FIFA’s pointers and human rights,” he added.

“For me it isn’t politics. It's human rights. It’s an article of garments which I placed on and which inside the Western world and in accordance with all human rights I’m allowed to placed on. I really hope that no person takes this as an attempt to impress one thing. We’re standing in the midst of the darkish, 30 kilometres out inside the desert. I didn't assume for a second that this may occasionally very properly be a difficulty,” he instructed native media.

Captains of England, Wales, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark have been set to placed on the OneLove armbands on the World Cup, in a gift of help of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood. Nonetheless they launched in a joint assertion on Monday that the idea had been dropped.