This past Thursday, after a five-minute hearing, Qatari poet Muhammad Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami was sentenced to life in prison for his poem “Tunisian Jasmine,” in which he expressed support for the Arab Spring.
The Qatari court convicted him of trying “to overthrow the regime of the country.” Read the report on the Human Rights Watch.
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