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Cairo – 20 September 2017: Qatari opposition members are taking further steps nowadays to voice their concerns and show their refusal of the Qatari regime’s policies with its neighboring Arab countries.
Recently, Qatari ruling family member Sheikh Sultan bin Suhaim Al-Thani released a statement calling on the country's ruling family to do all it can to resolve the crisis with its neighbors and "purge our land" from any links to terrorist organizations, Al Arabia reported on Tuesday.
Paris-based Sheikh Sultan bin Suhaim Al-Thani is one of the major figures to oppose the policies of Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim since the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt severed diplomatic ties and air, road and sea transport links with Doha in June over its support of extremist and terrorist groups, The National reported on Tuesday.
On Sunday, a day before Sheikh Sultan’s statement, Qatari royal family member Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali Al-Thani issued a statement published by his official Twitter account regarding the current political crisis in the Arab Gulf region.
The statement read, “It hurts me, as the situation is getting worse to the extent of obvious provoking against the stability of the Arab Gulf region, interference in another’s affairs, pushing the region to an unknown and unwanted fate, similar to the fate of states that chose to act unwisely, to end up drowning in chaos and ruin.”
Additionally, the Qatari opposition decided to raise their voice to the international community through a London conference organized by Qatari businessman and reformist Khalid Al-Hail. Qatari opposition figures, as well as leading U.S., U.K. and Middle Eastern politicians and commentators are set to lead a debate on Thursday and Friday highlighting Qatar’s rights abuses and funding of terror groups, Al Arabia reported.
Another silenced voice seeking justice and refuge from Qatar is Mona Al Sulaiti, the exiled sister of the current Qatari minister of communication.
She fled Qatar after being fired from her teaching job and losing her land to illegal confiscation. She had criticized the government on her social media platforms for funding terrorist groups, crushing dissent, and meddling in the affairs of Libya, Syria and Egypt during the Arab Spring, National Observer stated on January 12.
The Qatari opposition figure has stressed that Qatar has reached the point of no return on the road to its Arab surroundings, noting that with the beginning of its conspiracy against the Arabs, it has a vision outside the framework of the Arab world and the Gulf Cooperation Council, Sharjah 24 reported on August 2.
Most of the Qatari opposition cannot stay inside Qatar, or they may find themselves imprisoned.
Qatari poet Mohammed al-Ajami, also known as Mohammed Ibn al-Dheeb, was jailed from 2011 to 2016 over a poem he wrote that a court found had insulted the former emir and urged the overthrowing of the government, BBC reported in March 2016.
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