Qatar News News Qatar » Religion: Qatar sentences the country's Baha'i leader to 5 years for social media posts
The leader of the small Baha’i community in Qatar was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for social media posts that allegedly “cast doubt on the foundations of the Islamic religion,” ...
News Qatar » Religion: Qatar imprisons Baha'i leader for casting 'doubt on the foundations of the Islamic religion'
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remi Rowhani (photo credit: SECTION 27A COPYRIGHT ACT) Qatar has previously been accused of deporting members of the Baha'i ...
News Qatar » Religion: Qatar spent decades building its reputation. Deporting Bahá’ís threatens to undo it.
(RNS) — In recent weeks, nearly half of the few hundred remaining Baha’is in Qatar have been threatened with detentions, non-renewal of work permits and forceful deportation. (RNS) — For eight decades ...
News Qatar » Religion: Human Rights Watch condemns Qatar imprisonment of religious dignitary
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday condemned the five-year prison sentence handed down to Remi Rowhani, a Baha’i religious dignitary, following a a months-long trial by Qatari authorities. Rowhani was ...
News Qatar » Religion: Planned churches in Qatar necessitate religious diplomacy
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Qatar may best be known as the home of Al-Jazeera television, but an Anglican congregation plans to build the country's first Christian church since Islam's arrival in ...
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News Qatar » Religion: Qatar sentences the country's Baha'i leader to 5 years for social media posts
The verdict came just two weeks after a group of U.N. human rights experts expressed “serious concern” about the leader's arrest and detention, which they depicted as “part of a broader and disturbing ...