JAILED QATARI POET

Motion Text

That this House notes that the Qatari poet, Muhammad ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami, has now served two years of a 15 year sentence for allegedly criticising the Qatari government in the wake of the Arab Spring; believes that this is an outrageous sentence to impose for the exercise of freedom of speech; calls on the Qatari government to free Mr al-Ajami; and calls on the Government to make urgent representations to the Qatari government calling for his release.