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#Qatar jails #US couple for killing daughter to “sell her organs”
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A Qatari court on Thursday condemned a US couple from Los Angeles to three years in prison for allegedly causing the death of their adopted eight-year-old daughter to sell her organs or “perform medical experiments on them.” Matthew and Grace Huang were arrested in January 2013 after their daughter Gloria from Ghana died. The couple were also ordered to pay a fine of 15,000 riyals (4,100 dollars) each and will be deported after serving their sentence. read more

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#Qatar upholds 15-year jail term for dissident poet
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A top Qatari court on Monday upheld a 15-year jail term handed to a poet convicted of incitement against the regime, his lawyer said. “The Court of Cassation sentenced Mohammed al-Ajami to 15 years in prison,” confirming the sentence given to the poet by an appeals court in February, Nejib al-Naimi told AFP. He described Monday’s court ruling as “a political and not a judicial decision.” Ajami’s sole recourse now is to appeal to Qatar’s dictator Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani for clemency. (...)

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