COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s Union of Journalists is urging all Danish journalists not to travel to Qatar to deal with next year’s Globe Cup, declaring the Arab region are unable to be trustworthy.

“I do not rely on Qatar,” explained Allan Boye Thulstrup, the union’s deputy leader. “I am scared that the sources critical of the govt danger disappearing or heading to prison for a extended time, and that they will not be taken care of properly in jail,” he extra, speaking Wednesday to industry magazine Journalisten.

“It is of no use that Qatar to start with guarantees the press can get the job done unhindered and that they then arrest journalists,” Boye Thulstrup mentioned. His union has additional than 18,000 members.

The assertion came as a response to the detention by Qatari safety forces of two journalists from Norway, and the deletion of their footage collected at a migrant labor camp as they tried to report on worker troubles ahead of the FIFA 2022 Entire world Cup.

The governing administration in Qatar accused the two journalists of “trespassing on non-public residence and filming without a permit” as the two returned Wednesday to Norway. They contended they experienced verbal authorization from people they filmed there. Their devices was seized.

“Now the authorities in Qatar know what is on the journalists’ machines,” Boye Thulstrup was quoted as expressing. “If (the journalists) have been in contact with resources that are significant to the govt … then it is a process in which Qatar has shorter-circuited the overall supply safety.”