Story over people being jailed for LGBT flag at WC was fake

The president of the Qatar World Cup organising committee did not say that those who had LGBT flags at the World Cup would go to jail for between seven and 11 years. Several media outlets reported the news, but it was actually fake news from a Twitter account supporting the BJP, the ruling party of India. 

And what does the BJP have to do in all of this? At the start of June, there was controversy after two members of the BJP hurled insults at Prophet Muhammad. The Muslim countries were fuming and called for an apology and there was lots of tension on social media. 

A Twitter profile which supports the BJP, in order to sarcastically criticise Qatar, starting publishing messages which spoke positively about the country, but what they were actually doing was underlining how they do not respect human rights. That is why these false comments from Nasser Al-Khater were included. 

In fact, in the original text, he is called "the spokesman of Qatar." The fact Nasser Al-Khater appeared in the image leads to several media outlets quoting comments he had not actually made. Marc Owen Jones, columnist for the 'New York Times' and professor of the University Hamad Bin Khalifa analysed it. 

In addition, a media outlet which specialises in detecting fake news in Spain, 'Maldita.es', says they have asked the embassy in Qatar and sources close to the Qatari World Cup and they have all denied these comments.