When Qatar prepared to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Abdullah Ibhais worked as a media manager with Qatar’s organizing committee. He bravely risked everything by defying instructions to cover up migrant workers' abuse at a World Cup construction site. Within a matter of months, he was fired, arrested on trumped-up charges, and sentenced to three years in prison after an unfair trial. After enduring more than 1,250 days of imprisonment marked by torture and mistreatment, Ibhais was released in 2025. He is now speaking publicly for the first time at the Oslo Freedom Forum about his ordeal and the shocking, bloody cost behind the tournament now celebrated as one of the "greatest World Cups of all time."