SARATH GANJI on Sports Washing
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SARATH GANJI
Fellow, Center for a New American Security
Director, Autocracy and Global Sports Initiative
He researches and writes about a number of things related to global sports and security, and has become one of the world’s leading authorities and critics of what has become known as Sportswashing. That is the term used to describe how state actors, like Saudi Arabia and many others, use sports to mitigate criticism of their human rights abuses or other autocratic activity. Ganji talks here about what it is and how it’s manifested.
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