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Australian academic warned consulate staff he was being tortured in Qatari prison Christopher Knaus
An Australian public health professor alleges he told Australian consulate staff he was being tortured and held without charge when they visited him in a Qatari prison, but says they did nothing to help.
Biostatistician Prof Lukman Thalib, 58, was arrested at his Doha home and detained for five months without charge in Qatar, where he had been working as acting head of Qatar University’s public health department.
In his first comments since being released, Prof Thalib alleged he had been subjected to “hauntingly calculated” torture while in Qatar.
Australian academic ‘haunted’ by possibility of false confession during torture in Qatar Christopher Knaus
An Australian public health professor alleges he told Australian consulate staff he was being tortured and held without charge they visited him in a Qatari prison, but says they did nothing to help.
Biostatistician Prof Lukman Thalib, 58, was arrested at his Doha home and detained for five months without charge in Qatar, where he had been working as acting head of Qatar University’s public health department.
In his first comments since being released, Prof Thalib alleged he had been subjected to “hauntingly calculated” torture while in Qatar.
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His daughter, Maryam Luqman Talib, said the family was “overwhelmed with joy” at their release.
Maryam Talib and other relatives say they were not notified of the arrests for 40 days.
“My father and brother are naturally relieved to be back with their family but are still struggling to comprehend and come to terms with the chilling and horrifying five months that they left behind them,” she told the Guardian.
“The extent of damage done on their health is yet to be ascertained but what can be seen to the naked eye speaks volumes of the merciless torture they went through.”