A female World Cup official is facing a sentence of 100 lashes and seven years in jail for 'extramarital sex' after she reported being raped while working in Qatar. Paola Schietekat, 28, from , was working for the World Cup organising committee when she complained she was raped by an associate who broke into her apartment and threatened to kill her. She reported the June 6, 2021 attack to the Qatari authorities, which responded by accusing her of having an affair and charged her with 'extramarital sex', which is illegal in the Gulf state.
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