Qatar, Arab Spring sponsor, jails poet for life
 

29-11-12 07:25 PM

DOHA (Reuters) - A court in Qatar, which has backed Arab uprisings abroad, jailed a poet to life on Thursday for criticising the emir and inciting revolt - a sentence that drew outrage and charges of hypocrisy from human rights groups. In his verses, Muhammad Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami praised the Arab Spring revolts that toppled four dictators, often with the help of money and other support from the ...

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