This article is published by GCHR. Here is an excerpt:

Authorities in Qatar continue to target human rights activist Abdullah Al-Maliki due to his peaceful and legitimate activities in the field of human rights, including peaceful protests outside of Qatari diplomatic missions in Europe. The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is alarmed that he has been summoned to court on charges which may incur the death penalty and urges INTERPOL not to allow the red notice system to be used against him.

In November 2005, Qatari authorities revoked his Qatari citizenship, and he did not know anything about it until he made a routine visit to a government department. Two years later, in May 2007, his citizenship was re-instated, after international pressure on the authorities in Qatar.

The reason given for revoking his citizenship was an intervention he made on Al-Jazeera that was broadcast on 22 June 2005, during which he criticised the government’s performance and the inefficiency of services provided to Qataris outside the country.

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