Salman for FIFA head appalling choice: Rights group

‘A Washington-based human rights body advises against electing a Bahraini royal, who currently heads the Asian Football Confederation, as the president of the world soccer’s governing body.

Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifah could win the top FIFA position during an election on Friday.

On Thursday, the Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), which is critical of Manama’s rights record, said Salman played the leading role in persecuting those athletes in the kingdom, who took part in anti-regime protests in 2011.’

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