Qatar's death row and the invisible migrant workforce deemed unworthy of due process
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Qatar’s death row and the invisible migrant workforce
deemed unworthy of due process
Published: November 25, 2022 8.11am EST
Jocelyn Hutton
Research Officer, Death Penalty Research Unit, University of Oxford
Carolyn Hoyle
Director of the University of Oxford Death Penalty Research Unit, Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Lucy Harry
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Death Penalty Research Unit (DPRU), University of Oxford
Qatari authorities are ignoring international law by failing to inform embassies when their citizens are
arrested, detained or are pending trial for a death sentence.
Our new data reveals that between 2016 and 2021 at least 21 people were under sentence of death in
Qatar. Of the 21, only three cases involved Qatari nationals and only one involved a woman (who was
accused of murder). The remaining 18 were made up of foreign nationals: seven from India, two from
Nepal, five from Bangladesh, one Tunisian and three Asians of unknown nationality.
https://theconversation.com/qatars-death-row-and-the-invisible-migrant-workforce-deemed-unworthy-of-due-process-191017
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