Doha rejects chance to end Qatari tribe’s persecution

Qatar snubbed an opportunity on Tuesday to end its “inhumane” persecution of a Qatari tribe who have been stripped of their citizenship. The Doha regime’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva boasted of Qatar’s efforts to help stateless people in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Libya and Sudan — but made no mention of those made stateless by his own country. The envoy, Ali Khalfan Al-Mansouri, told a special session of the UN refugee agency’s executive committee that Qatar’s policy on statelessness was “determined by the law and shall be constitutional.”

He failed to explain the plight of 6,000 members of the Al-Ghufran tribe, who have been denied their rights as Qatari citizens for more than two decades. “I did not expect