Qatar Human Rights Official Defends Life Sentence For Poet Who Praised Arab Spring Uprisings
December 7, 2012
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Three days after the United Nations climate change conference began here in Doha, a Qatari court sentenced a local poet to life in prison, a move that shocked many activists in the Gulf region and human rights observers. The sentencing of Muhammad Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami came nearly two years after he wrote a poem titled, "Tunisian Jasmine," supporting the uprisings in the Arab world. "We are all Tunisia in the face of repressive elites!" al-Ajami wrote. "The Arab governments and who rules them are without exception thieves, thieves!" We speak to his attorney and a member of Qatar's National Human Rights Committee.
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