Qatar reduces jail term for poet to 15 years: lawyer

“My client was sentenced today to 15 years in prison,” Mohammed Nejib al-Naimi told AFP, adding that the case will now be taken to the court of cassation for the final decision.

Mohammed al-Ajami was arrested after the publication of his “Jasmine poem,” which criticized governments across the Gulf region in the wake of crackdowns on the Arab Spring uprisings, with the line “we are all Tunisia in the face of the repressive elite.”

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