An Australian public health professor and his son have been detained in Qatar for almost five months without charge, and are receiving consular assistance from the Australian embassy.
Australian citizens Prof Lukman Thalib, 58, and his son Ismail Talib, 24, were arrested at their home in Doha by local authorities on 27 July, and are being kept at an undisclosed location.
The arrests came roughly three months before the United States named another of Prof Thalib’s sons, who lives in Australia, as an alleged “financial facilitator” of al-Qaida.
Prof Thalib is a public health expert and biostatistician, who has been in Qatar since 2015.
He is still listed as acting head of Qatar University’s public health department and has recently assisted the country with its Covid-19 response.
The family is being assisted by Cage, a London-based organization, which believes the arrests in Qatar and interrogation of other family members in Sri Lanka are a form of guilt by association and collective punishment.
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