The Qatari who was detained in the UAE late last February is suspected by the UAE authorities of having links with a social organisation (Dawat Al Islah) there, which is alleged to have connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Dr Mahmood Al Jaidah (pictured) is also accused of accepting an envelope containing Dh100,000 (close to QR100,000) from a UAE national, Abdul Wahid Al Baadi, which was to be handed over to a UAE citizen in Qatar.
However, despite having been arrested more than five months ago, on February 26, in the UAE, while he was on his way to Doha from Bangkok, no formal charges have yet been filed against Al Jaidah.
According to Qatari lawyer Abdullah Taher, Al Jaidah is still in judicial remand in Abu Dhabi. His remand was extended for a month by a court that met quickly on June 17.
Taher tweeted yesterday saying that Paris-based International Federation of Human Rights, known as FIDH, has in a communication urged the ruler of the UAE to release Al Jaidah.
Taher talked in his tweet about the above accusations against Al Jaidah and said he was still being held in solitary confinement without being formally charged.
“Where in the world judicial remand is for four months,” Taher asked in a previous tweet, talking of Al Jaidah’s remand having been extended until July 17. And, despite July 17 having passed he is still being held in remand as some forensic laboratory report is being awaited, Taher tweeted on July 19.
Is it a big crime accepting an envelope containing cash to be given to someone else, asked Taher in a previous tweet.
“He (Al Jaidah) should have been released a long time ago and if at all, a travel ban should have been imposed on him,” said the lawyer.
“That’s (accepting an envelope with cash) no justification to detain someone in solitary confinement for so long,” Taher said in his tweet yesterday.
In previous tweets, he said that Al Jaidah’s UAE lawyer had not even been allowed to take a copy of his case file.
Launching a blistering attack on Qatar’s National Human Rights Committee (NHRC), he said it had done nothing so far on the issue of Al Jaidah.
Source:The Peninsula
