Messi Sent Message Above Multi-Million Saudi Campaign Contract

27 February, 2021
Messi Sent Message Above Multi-Million Saudi Campaign Contract
FC Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi, who's the most marketable player ever sold, has been dispatched a message by a human rights group warning him against accepting a multi-million campaign contract from Saudi Arabia.

It's been reported that the 33-year-out of date has been offered a massive deal to participate in a tourism project for Saudi Arabia called Visit Saudi.

In line with the Independent, Messi has been asked to get the facial skin of the tourism campaign, but this news provides been met with anger from human rights advocacy body Grant Liberty.

The group, along with families of many people imprisoned by the Arab state, have reportedly now put their heads together and reached out to the Barcelona player via an open letter, warning him against helping raise the country's reputation.

"You are an inspiration to millions and everything you say and do really matters. To place it bluntly - you have enormous power, but with that power comes wonderful responsibility," the letter reading.

"The Saudi regime really wants to use you to launder its reputation. Prisoners of conscience in Saudi Arabia have been tortured, sexually assaulted, and kept in prolonged solitary confinement - quite often for months at the same time - on an industrial scale.

"Women's rights campaigners, reformist preachers, Shia activists, democracy campaigners, in fact, anyone who criticizes and even questions the regime can face long-term imprisonment and occasionally the death penalty.

"In the event that you say 'yes' to Visit Saudi, you happen to be in place saying yes to all the human rights abuses that happen today found in modern Saudi Arabia. But if you declare 'no' you will mail an equally powerful message - that human rights matter, that decency concerns, that those that torture and murder usually do not do so with impunity. The environment must endure those that trample on others.

"Lionel Messi, you certainly are a hero to millions - please use that status for good. Stand up for human being rights and declare no to the butchers of Jamal Khashoggi and the brutalises of relaxing campaigners in Saudi Arabia."
Source: www.soccerladuma.co.za
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