July 7 – Swiss federal judges have dismissed FIFA’s appeal against a ruling that overturned its life ban on Yves Jean-Bart, the former president of Haiti’s football federation, for alleged sexual abuse of women’s national team players.
The verdict from Switzerland’s supreme court released on Thursday rejected FIFA’s request, filed in March, to annul a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling that lifted Jean-Bart’s expulsion.
Human rights bodies reacted with disbelief when CAS decided the then 75-year-old’s ban should be “annulled due to insufficient evidence”.
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