The Arab Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) presented the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) a complaint against Qatar’s violation of the Ghufran tribe and its members to the Office of the. The complaint included claims of torture by the Qatari authorities and called for all their rights to be restored. (Supplied)The complaint detailed how in 1996 Qatari authorities arrested and detained many members of the tribe of Ghufran tribe. In 2005, the Qatari authorities ordered the revocation of the citizenship of 6,000 tribe members in a racist way, where children and women were not spared. The tribe members appealed in the complaint to the UNHCR to help tribe members to attain their rights.

Source: The North Africa Journal September 21, 2017 19:52 UTC