人権侵害犯した人物はオーナー不適格　プレミアリーグが新規則

【ロンドンＡＦＰ＝時事】サッカーイングランド・プレミアリーグは３０日、過去に人権侵害を犯した人物が同リーグのクラブオーナーやディレクターになるのを不可能にする新規則を承認した。（写真はイングランド・プレミアリーグのトロフィー）
　オーナーやディレクターになる基準の強化として、「不適格事案」の一つに人権侵害を加えることになった。
　新ルールでは、英国政府の制裁対象となっている個人や会社も不適格となる。不適格となる犯罪の範囲は、暴力、汚職、詐欺、脱税、ヘイトクライム（憎悪犯罪）にまで拡大された。
　また、証明されれば「不適格事案」に該当する行為について調査を受けている場合、リーグはその人物がディレクターになるのを禁止する権限も持つ。
　プレミアリーグはこれまで、人権問題をめぐる懸念をよそにサウジアラビア政府系基金パブリック・インベストメント・ファンド（ＰＩＦ）のニューカッスル・ユナイテッド買収を認めたことで、国際人権団体アムネスティ・インターナショナルなどから批判を受けている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/03/31-17:57）

An individual who has committed human rights abuses will be unable to be an owner or director of a Premier League football club under new rules approved on Thursday.
Human rights abuses, based on the Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020, will be one of a number of additional disqualifying events under a strengthened owners' and directors' test for England's top flight.
The new rules, approved by clubs, also mean a person or company subject to British government sanctions would be disqualified.
The range of criminal offences that would result in disqualification has been extended to include offences involving violence, corruption, fraud, tax evasion and hate crimes.
The Premier League also has the power to bar people from becoming directors where they are under investigation for conduct that would result in a disqualifying event if proven.
English football chiefs have been criticised by rights groups, including Amnesty International, for allowing Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) to fund a takeover of Newcastle, despite their concerns over the country's human rights record.
Peter Frankental, Amnesty International UK's economic affairs director, responded to Thursday's announcement by saying: It's a step in the right direction that human rights and hate crimes are now being considered.
But it'll make little difference unless powerful individuals linked to serious human rights violations overseas are definitively barred from taking control of Premier League clubs and using them for state sportswashing.
He added: Would, for instance, a future bid involving Saudi or Qatari sovereign wealth funds be blocked by this rule change? -- it's far from clear that they would.
The enhanced rules come after the British government announced in February a plan to create an independent football regulator to oversee the financial sustainability of the men's game in England.
Premier League chief executive Richard Masters warned the regulator should not be a sledgehammer, echoing concerns expressed by some clubs.
On Tuesday, however, Masters was unable to say if the Premier League had launched an investigation into who had control of Newcastle, telling a committee of lawmakers: I can't really comment on it. I mean, even to the point of saying, 'is the Premier League investigating it?', we can't really comment on it.