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An Australian biostatistics professor – who worked as part of Qatar's coronavirus task force – and his son are being
detained without charge
Prof
Lukman Thalib, 58, and his son Ismail Talib, 24, were arrested at their home in Doha in July.
Three months after their arrest, the US State Department named another of the academic's sons, who lives in Australia, as an alleged “financial facilitator” of Al Qaeda.
Prof
Thalib has lived
in Qatar since 2015 and was working as one of its leading public health officials on its pandemic response.
The father of four was the head of the Department of Public Health at Qatar University.