Ali Issa Ahmed said his goal is to wear a Qatar football jersey in a game in the United Arab Emirates in 2019.

A British football fan filed a lawsuit against six officials in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), saying he was Torture and wrongful imprisonment During the trip to the country in 2019.

Ali Issa Ahmed said he was arrested after participating in an Asian Cup football match while on vacation in the UAE.he is charged He said he was beaten for supporting the Qatar national team, then made false statements and wasted police time.

The lawsuit stated that when Ahmed was detained between January 23 and February 12, he stated that he suffered physical and psychological harm and negligence.

Ahmed (Ahmed) said in a statement issued by his lawyer on Thursday: “I was severely tortured in the UAE and was almost killed.” “They tried to make themselves look like they did these things to themselves. , And was cut by myself.

He said: “The UAE authorities ignored all my complaints, did not investigate, and no one held accountable.” “I have decided to file a civil lawsuit against those responsible for torturing me in order to clarify the truth and what I did to me. There are axioms to terrible things.”

The lawsuit appoints the head and deputy chief of the Abu Dhabi Police Force, the head of the Sharjah Police Force and the head of the Abu Dhabi National Security Prosecutor.

In a previous interview with The Guardian, Ahmad, a citizen of the Sudan-British confrontation, said that officials contacted him and demanded that he surrender the Qatar jersey he was wearing. Sympathy to Qatar should be punished in the UAE state, and offenders face up to 15 years in prison.

He said that after wearing another Qatari shirt on the beach the next day, he was punched in the face, put on handcuffs and left traces of bloodshed by security personnel.

The UAE Embassy in London had previously stated that Ahmed’s injury was “inconsistent with his description of the incident and appeared to be self-harming” and refuted the claim that Ahmed had been targeted for wearing a Qatar jersey.

The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt suspended diplomatic relations with Qatar in June 2017 and imposed a land, sea and air blockade.

The two countries signed an agreement in January 2021, officially ending the crisis.