A press release from the human rights watchdog quotes Dana Ahmed, its Middle East researcher, saying, “Al-Nassr’s signing of Cristiano Ronaldo fits into a wider pattern of sportswashing in Saudi Arabia. “Sportswashing” is the phenomenon of burnishing one’s reputation through sport. “It is highly likely that the Saudi authorities will promote Ronaldo’s presence in the country as a means of distracting from the country’s appalling human rights record,” added Ahmed.
” The release argues that the Saudi state executes people without fair trial and does not allow for freedom of expression or association. Ronaldo will earn an estimated $200 million a year with Al Nassr, according to Saudi state-owned media. The statement from Amnesty International came in response to comments made by the Portuguese star at his unveiling for the Riyadh-based team on Monday where he said, “I want to give a different vision of this club and country.
Palestinians are killed almost daily by Israelis, where is amnesty international Is Israel on a different planet?
Rubbish, is he a player of Amnesty international? Secondly, someone in UK has recently revealed he killed 25 people, what has amnesty international done or commented on it?
😂🤣😆Before or after he takes their money?
will he get paid for that? 😜
He won’t.
Yeah right, and earn 200M €/year?
A grown-up chasing a ball day on, day off. Keep your expectations low.
How about Europe where there is censorship and free speech is only allowed inless one doesn’t disagree with the status quo on lgbtqia
Did they contribute to who he is now?
جميل جدا نتمنى أن يتحدث كرستيانو عن حياة الناس في المملكة العربية السعودية حتى يعرف العالم أن السعودية هي الوجهة المناسبة للناس
cheap shot amnesty .. he's not a minion of yours.
Hypocrisy. Cristiano is not in Saudi for human right fight, he is not a politician. Thoe who's responsibility is for that, let them do it and not Ronaldo. You wanna talk about human right, talk about the mass killings of palestrinas by 🇮🇱. Regardless of who palestrinas are.
Does Amnesty International document institutional racism people of color experience in western democracies? Sorry, it’s institutionalized, so it’s legal?
Making $75,000,000 a year I think not
I follow him but I just lost the respect I had for him, cant believe he went to Saudi I guess money talks but Saudis are a bunch of crooks that cant accomplish anything without paying for it 🤦🏻♂️
Dudes, this is soccer, he came for the money and to play good football ⚽️ Saudi has US support to do whatever they want as does Israel!
If Every NFL start and NBA star did that every time the US abused human rights internationally, guess they would have to cancel all games !
If the UN can't do crap, how can they expect this guy do something about it? That means Amnesty international is useless.
Would you ask him to highlight human rights issues if he was in israel?
Did he highlight the endless racism we see in the eurozone? Oh wait, they are pure white who never do wrong!!!!
AI?
This WOKING should stop.Kashoggi brutally murdered, world leaders were mum on it, sealed their lips. When world leaders can't do anything about it, y do u expect Ronaldo to do it? He's gone there to play.
Has now become 'UN Envoy' to the Middle East or what? Is Ronaldo now appointed as 'Human Rights Watch Representative' for Amnesty International? What's going on here? Muslim women and men in France face human rights issues, yet, Amnesty I. didn't request Messi to face E. Macron..
… and ruin his deal for problems he and his wife don’t have.
They should mind their own business and impose pressure on the UN to impose sanctions on the aparteid regime in Israel that have terrorised Palestine and its people for decades without responsibility.
CNNNNNNNN.
How can a football player, though one of the best and most popular, correct what a POTUS is silent about, risking his job while gain nothing anyway?
He's merely a footballer; why should he get involved in things he knows nothing about?
You should pay his bill then.
Well they didn't ask Beckham to stop shooting and racism in USA, absolute 🤡
Harassing a football player for a political agenda shows the lack of credibility in the organization. He’s a player who’s playing/teaching future players and he himself said that in the press conference.
If he really cared he wouldn't have gone there in the first place.
Yeah but he won't because £170m a year.
Why. It's not like everyone doesn't know.
Its wrong to expect sports person to speak on Human Rights
Weird that they didn't task him to make statements on human rights while playing for European teams even as NATO was butchering Afghans, Libyans, Iraqis and the immigration scandals in Europe. Virtue signaling shouldn't be the new norm for such a would be important organisation
Nonsense. When did the amnesty international sponsored his career? kbsalsaud KingSalman MohamedBinZayed
Leave politic out of soccer.
No way!!... Ronaldo ain't doing anything that would favour westerner on Saudis soil.. human right like LGBTQ Hell know...
Don’t do it. Stop trying to fix other countries problems if they didn’t ask for your help. You have fans across the world. Don’t be a PSA tool.
Why ?
😅😂 I don't think he cares or has the culture to understand or speak out for human rights!! All he cares about is $€$€£$
Money talks you know
He went for his own business not Amnesty business 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Only if Amnesty is willing to pay him more than Al- Nasser.
I'm all for human rights....but CR7 is there to play football and get that oil money...not to push the agenda of some grand standing pencil pusher in London.
Amnez(ia)ty International….
You really thought that narcist Cristiano will do that?
He plays soccer not politics.
Don't hold your breath.
That's not his job. Maybe speak to JoeBiden CNN
That’s Biden’s job.
Wouldn't it be better if Amnesty International dared to ask US to highlight human rights issues in KSA?
what a joke 😂
Though noble but soon as he starts his contract will be terminated. Will Amnesty give him another?
Did he care about the human rights of the young lady in Las Vegas? notgoingtohappen
That wont happen, have you seen his wages.
Amnesty International, hypocrites! No human rights issue in Saudi Arabia that is more cruel than Israel's crimes against Palestine Professional sports such as football are not related to political human rights issues amnesty FIFAcom
Lmao
They should not kill my CR7 for me there
America and Canada has worse human rights issues to work on compared to Saudi Arabia. Western liberals think they are better but in actuality they are horrible people.
did he go there with your stamp? football should not be politicized.
If Amnesty pay him enough he will oblige.
He has gone to play for a club. When the POTUS is not able to do anything what can Ronaldo do
Amnesty International is an evil organization that uses the plight of people to forward their own wicked and hideous agendas in 2023 their covered wicked ways should be exposed to the whole world, same goes for United Nations.
That's not he was paid to do.
Has the US government ever done that? If no, why would you expect Ronaldo to do it?
There is a martial law in Zahedan, they arrest the gathering of more than two people. Reports indicate that widespread arbitrary and mass detention continues. StopBalochGenocide MahsaAmini
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HAS SAID THAT CRISTIONO RONALDO SHOULD HIGHLIGHTS HIS BANK ALERT.
It's none of his business. He's paid to play football, nothing more. 🤷♀️
If he does that he’ll probably end up somewhere deep under water in a bag.
“Hey, Ronaldo… do you mind risking your career by saying things millions of people already say daily?”
🤣🤣🤣
We don't care about human rights Cristiano Ronaldo is the GOAT 🐐
😂😂😂😂..have you not learned that he only cares about himself .. he’s not going to bite the hand that’s overpaying him.
Or maybe he should play football and Amnesty do thier fkn job. FFS!
Qué cachondos
they should allow him do what he is paid to do and not drag him into thier BS.
he cares about the 200 million dollars, not about which country he is in, or that a young woman there is currently in jail for 34 years for using Twitter.
Um, guy went there to take the money. I do not see why he would jeopardize biggest money he could ever make, especially at that age. And vast majority of the population that would want him to would sell their silence for a fraction of that amount.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 he will do no such thing
How much are they paying him to do that? Zero?! Then zero chance, unfortunately.
None of your business