US journalist gets detained at World Cup over rainbow shirt ...Middle East

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DOHA: A US journalist said he was briefly detained yesterday when he tried to enter a World Cup stadium in Qatar while wearing a rainbow shirt in support of the LGBTQ community in a country where same-sex relations are illegal.Grant Wahl, a former Sports Illustrated journalist who now has his own website, said World Cup security denied him entry to the US opener against Wales at the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium in Al Rayyan and asked him to take his shirt off.He said his phone was taken away when he tweeted about the incident.“I’m okay, but that was an unnecessary ordeal,” Wahl wrote on Twitter.He said a security commander later approached him, apologised, and allowed him into the venue. He also la

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