Qatar violating rights of Al Murra members: Bahrain Jurists Society

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

Bahrain Jurists Society, an organisation with consultative status at the United Nations, yesterday denounced Qatar for preventing the service of lawyers to the members of the Al-Murra tribe. “Qatar should stop discriminating between its citizens and provide those they have detained their rightful access to lawyers,” said the Society.

The Society observed that Qatar had silenced and arrested them without providing any constitutional rights and contradicting international human rights law.

Reports had said that the kingdom is stripping the semi-nomadic Al-Murra tribes of their citizenships and their rights. “Surprisingly, political rights are only for citizens in Qatar and banning Al Murra tribe represents an implicit withdrawal of their citizenship,” the Society said.

The Jurists Society also said it is shocking and startling to know that the arrests were for peaceful demands to restore their rights.