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Spotlight: Qatar Free Expression & the Law

Qatar renews travel ban imposed on prominent human rights lawyer Najeeb Al-Nuaimi

2 July 2017
Gulf Centre for Human Rights

Al-Nuaimi is a well-known human rights lawyer who voluntarily defended prisoners of conscience in Qatar, including poet Mohamed Rashid Al-Ajami.

Qatar Digital Rights Censorship

Qatar's crisis is about freedom of expression

The singling out of Qatar has as much to do with alleged support of terrorism as it does with a desire to shutter Al Jazeera.

‎ Electronic Frontier Foundation‎14 June 2017

Qatar blocks prominent Doha News

Qatar's leading English independent news publication reports that its Qatar readers can no longer access its site, a development that could prove to be a fatal blow to free expression in the Gulf nation.

‎ Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain‎ 6 December 2016

Qatar Censorship Free Expression & the Law

Danish television crew detained by Qatari authorities

On May 5, the crew drove to Labor City, on the outskirts of Doha, to film the Workers Cup, a soccer tournament for migrant workers. Security officials ordered them to follow them to a nearby police station soon after they arrived.

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists‎24 May 2016

Latest from Qatar

Civil society to Obama: Live up to your 2011 promises, support reform in the Gulf

‎ Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Gulf Centre for Human Rights, Reporters Without Borders

Qatar Kuwait Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates Oman Bahrain 11 April 2016
Qatari poet Mohammed Ibn al-Dheeb al-'Ajami released

‎ PEN International

Qatar Free Expression & the Law 16 March 2016
UN experts call for release of Qatari poet Mohammed al-Ajami

‎ Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain

Qatar Free Expression & the Law 21 October 2015
Condemn the 15-year sentence of Qatari poet Mohammed al-Ajami

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Qatar 6 August 2015
Qatar detains international journalists for the second time this year

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Qatar Free Expression & the Law 20 May 2015
Qatar detains German reporters investigating workers' conditions in lead-up to 2022 World Cup

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Qatar Censorship Free Expression & the Law 6 May 2015
New cybercrime law could have serious consequences for press freedom in Qatar

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Qatar Digital Rights 19 September 2014
British-Nepali journalist and activist team detained in Qatar

‎ International Federation of Journalists

Qatar Free Expression & the Law 8 September 2014
Qatar bills itself as a “bastion of free speech”

‎ Index on Censorship

Qatar Free Expression & the Law 24 March 2014
Economic progress in Qatar fuelled by totalitarian repression

‎ Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies

Qatar Freedom of Assembly Free Expression & the Law 30 January 2014
Qatar urged to reconsider repressive cybercrime bill

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Qatar Digital Rights 31 May 2013
Qatari poet's life sentence reduced to 15 years

‎ PEN International

Qatar Free Expression & the Law 27 February 2013
Qatari poet sentenced to life in prison

‎ Human Rights Watch

Qatar Free Expression & the Law 3 December 2012
Qatar's draft media law penalises criticism of rulers

‎ Human Rights Watch

Qatar Censorship Free Expression & the Law 30 October 2012
Twelve Egyptian citizens detained

‎ Arabic Network for Human Rights Information

Qatar 6 March 2012
Two Swiss journalists prevented from leaving the country for 13 days

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Qatar 21 April 2011
Blogger and human rights activist arrested

‎ Arabic Network for Human Rights Information

Qatar Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law 7 March 2011
Ménard calls it quits at Doha Centre

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Qatar 24 June 2009
Doha Centre journalist prevented from leaving the country

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Qatar 25 March 2009
Journalist sentenced in absentia to three years' imprisonment for article critical of public hospital

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Qatar 23 June 2008
Annual Report 2008: The Gulf states

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Qatar Kuwait United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia Bahrain 16 April 2008
Freedom of the Press 2007: Qatar

‎ Freedom House

Qatar 28 February 2008
Government pardons and releases Jordanian journalist who was earlier sentenced to death

‎ International Federation of Journalists

Qatar 18 March 2003
Death sentence against Jordanian journalist upheld

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Qatar 25 February 2003
Journalist faces death sentence

‎ International Federation of Journalists

Qatar 21 January 2003
Jordanian journalist sentenced to death for "spying"

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Qatar 23 October 2002

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Freedom of the Press 2017: Qatar

In May [2016], security officials detained three journalists from the Danish Broadcasting Corporation who were filming a migrant workers’ soccer tournament and, before releasing the group, confiscated their footage and forced them to confess to trespassing and filming without permission.

Freedom House 28 April 2017
Operation Decisive Storm strikes freedom of expression in Yemen & the Gulf

An ANHRI report on the impact of the war on Yemen on freedom of expression

Arabic Network for Human Rights Information 4 October 2016
Freedom of the Press 2016: Qatar

In March, security agents temporarily detained a German sports reporter and his team for filming migrant workers without permission, confiscating their equipment and deleting their footage

Freedom House 24 April 2016