Critics of the Government of Qatar jails writer

Critics of the Government of Qatar jails writer

                            

GENEVA, KOMPAS.com - The UN Human Rights Council, on Tuesday (01/08/2013), criticized the sentence of life imprisonment imposed on the government of Qatar poet Mohammed al-Ajami.

Al Ajami is also known by the name of Ibn al Dheeb, get a sentence of life imprisonment on 29 November 2012 because he wrote a poem which is considered a coup attempt against the government system, and insulting the emir of Qatar.

"We are very concerned about the fairness hearing, including the right to defense," a spokesman for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Cecile Pouilly in Geneva.

Cecile menunjuka number of discrepancies procedures and emphasize that a trial was held in closed session.

OHCHR also concerned because Al Ajami spent several months in solitary confinement while the court ordered that the poet was transferred to a regular detention.

" ; OHCHR will continue to monitor closely the case of Al Ajami, "Cecile said, adding that the appeal hearing is scheduled for January 27 next.

Meanwhile, Amnesty International describes a life sentence for Al Ajami as" ; betrayal of the freedom of speech "said Qatar was formally prosecute Al Ajami as a poem created in 2010. The poem is considered to be critical of the Emir of Qatar.

However, Amnesty believes the arrest of Al Ajami in November 2011 due to his poetry praising the success of the revolution in Tunisia. The poem was also criticized governments throughout the Gulf.

"We are all Tunisian hunger in the face of oppressive elite," said one sentence poem Al Ajami.

A number of human rights activists assess heavy penalties to Al Ajami is a warning to anyone who wants to stir up a revolution in Qatar.

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