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2021-05-31 Arabia
Qatar charges Kenyan migrant with taking payment to spread disinformation
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
’s public prosecution has charged a Kenyan man who has written about migrant rights in the Gulf Arab state with receiving payment to spread disinformation, the government’s communication office (GCO) said on Saturday.

Malcolm Bidali, who had been writing under a pseudonym, was arrested on May 5 for violating Qatar’s security laws, according to a Qatari official. Rights groups have voiced concern that his detention may be in reprisal for human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
work.

"Mr. Bidali has been formally charged with offences related to payments received by a foreign agent for the creation and distribution of disinformation within the State of Qatar," the GCO said in a statement, without elaborating.

It said his case was transferred to the Public Prosecution after a thorough investigation and that Bidali was "receiving legal advice and representation ahead of the court date, which has not yet been set".

Rights groups including Amnesia Amnesty International said in a statement on Friday that Bidali, a security guard and blogger, told his mother in a May 20 phone call that he was being held in solitary confinement and had no access to a lawyer.

Qatar’s official National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) said authorities gave unrestricted access to Bidali and "he was being treated properly".

NHRC added staff from the Kenyan Embassy visited him and he had contacts with his family and the International Labor Organization (ILO).
Posted by Fred 2021-05-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top
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