British human rights activist, Peter Tatchell was allegedly arrested by Qatari police for staging a public LGBT protest, 26 days before the start of the 2022 World Cup.
The protest was ‘the first-ever public LGBT+ protest in any gulf state,’ according to a representative of the veteran protester.
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Tatchell, 70, staged the one-man protest outside the National Museum of Qatar in Doha on Tuesday, with pictures showing him holding a placard supporting Qatari LGBT people. The placard read: ‘Qatar arrests, jails & subjects LGBTs to ‘conversion”.
According to Mail Online, two uniformed police officers and three other officials arrived at the scene outside Qatar’s national museum. They folded up his placard and took photos of Tatchell’s passport and other papers, and those of a man accompanying him.
