Activists take Qatar workers protest to FIFA boss's home town

The Activists' mobile billboards carried the messages "Infantino: your family were migrants", "Thousands like them were victims of this World Cup", and "Compensate them now".

PROTEST: An activist wears a portrait of FIFA President Gianni Infantino during a protest of social movement group AVAAZ, to demand the world soccer body to compensate migrant workers for alleged human rights abuses in Qatar, host of the football World Cup, in his hometown Brig, Switzerland. Pic: REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

An activist group erected protest billboards in FIFA boss Gianni Infantino's Swiss home town of Brig on Wednesday to demand the world soccer body compensate migrant workers for alleged human rights abuses in Qatar, host of the football World Cup.

The mobile billboards carried the messages "Infantino: your family were migrants", "Thousands like them were victims of this World Cup", and "Compensate them now".