2018 FIFA World Cup: Mohamed Salah’s Photo With Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov Evokes Sharp Reactions on Social Media

Egypt’s Mohamed Salah has found himself in a soup. Reason? Liverpool’s forward Salah’s pictures with Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov went viral ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. The Chechnya leader man accused of ´torture and extrajudicial killings´. Smiling pictures of Salah with Ramzan Kadyrov evoked severe reactions. “Mo Salah was woken from his sleep so a man accused of ‘torture and extrajudicial killings’ could have a photo with him during training,” wrote British tabloid The Sun.

The pictures agitated the netizens, who posted angry comments on Twitter and called Mo Salah a hypocrite. They in fact reminded Salah of the incident where he refused to shake hands with Israeli players. Check out a few tweets.

“Remember how @MoSalah refused to shake hands with 🇮🇱Israeli players in a match against @MaccabiTLVFC? Here he is 🤝shaking hands with Ramzan Kadyrov, one of the world's top human rights violators. Hypocrite much? 🤨,” read a tweet.

“@MoSalah can go to hell!,” read another tweet.

“You are a bigot and a disgrace @mosalah you side with and support palestinian extremists, whose objective is to exterminate jews. YOU are the problem, salah,” read another post.

This netizen criticized Ramzan Kadyrov for waking up the star footballer from his sleep after being excused from the practice session.

“That guy is an absolute tyrant. Murders gay men in his country,” wrote a netizen.

Mohamed Salah who was injured during the finals of the Champions League has started training a little. He got a very warm welcome in Russia and it's still not clear if he will play the match against Uruguay on June 15.

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