Asian football chief's new term draws complaints from human rights watch | The Malaysian Insight

Sheikh Salman Ebrahim al Khalifa wins the election unopposed at the Asian Football Confederation Congress in Kuala Lumpur today. – EPA pic, April 6, 2019.

ASIA’S football chief and FIFA’s second-in-command Sheikh Salman Ebrahim al Khalifa received a fresh, four-year term today drawing criticism from campaigners who said regional soccer was in “crisis” over human rights. The Bahraini royal, who was standing unopposed, was elected in his absence at the Asian Football Confederation Congress in Kuala Lumpur, which he missed following the death of his mother on Wednesday.

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