Aqeel: The Tamim regime is taking advantage of the Corona pandemic to liquidate its opponents

Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights denounces the death of Qatari citizen Ahmed Tahoud in a prison in the Qatari capital, Doha, as a result of being assaulted and tortured by Nepalese policemen on orders from the prison administration, until he breathed his last.

Tahoud had gone on hunger strike with Qatari prisoners as a result of the outbreak of the new Corona virus in Qatar, the continued denial of health care, as well as inhumane practices and degrading treatment and torture, in protest against these inhuman conditions, and in an attempt to remove a little injustice from them. On their shoulders, endangering the lives of many of them

This was not the initial torture incident inside Qatari prisons, where the Qatari opposition journalist Fahd Buhendi died inside the “notorious” Qatari Hamour prison after being tortured by officers in the Qatari security services during the month of April, after years of arbitrary detention and denial of the simplest A human right in prison, which led to his death.

For his part, Ayman Aqil, head of the Maat Foundation, said that the death of two inside Qatari prisons as a result of torture in less than a month raises the alarm about hundreds of detainees whose help does not reach the outside world, and they are waiting for a similar fate, as long as Qatari prisons remain isolated from real control, and Aqeel added that the system The Qatari citizen takes advantage of the Corona pandemic that strikes the world in order to liquidate his opponents, calling on the UN agencies to inspect the conditions of Qatari prisons, and to allow specialized international organizations to visit all places of detention.

 Aqeel also demanded that the United Nations experts, especially the Special Rapporteur against torture and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killing, be allowed to visit Qatar and open an immediate investigation into the deaths of detainees, and about the torture and ill-treatment of detainees being exposed in prisons and the excessive intransigence in depriving them of their most basic human needs. The head of Maat Foundation called on the Qatari authorities to provide a minimum level of care for detainees in accordance with the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, the “Nelson Mandela Rules”.