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The Daily Mail: Qatar which hosts the 2022 World Cup forcibly arrests activist Noof Al-Maadeed

Al-Maadeed returns to Doha after the Qatari authorities gave her assurances that she would be safe.

The British Daily Mail newspaper, in its issue today, touched on the issue of the disappearance of the young women’s rights activist, Noof Al-Maadeed, after she voluntarily returned to Qatar last month.

The newspaper has already raised fears that the Qatari authorities will forcibly arrest the opposition activist after she was returned from Britain, where she canceled her asylum application and promised that she would be safe.

The newspaper said that the disappearance of Al – Maadeed, 23 years old, on 13 October, came after she spoke through a series of tweets about her vulnerability and death threats from family members, who abused her, referring to her subsequent forced arrest, which was also confirmed by a number of activists, according to the newspaper.

Noof Al-Maadeed

The Daily Mail quoted Rothna Begum, of Human Rights Watch, as saying that “Qatari authorities have claimed that Noof is in a safe place, not with her family, and that she has been silent to protect her, but we are concerned that she is being held against her will, no contact with the outside world, in the form of forms of detention.”

Earlier, days after her disappearance, Human Rights Watch had for the first time expressed concerns about the fate of her, having stopped publishing, and was no longer answering telephone calls, especially since the authorities in Qatar had refused to comment on the case.

Today, Begum’s statement from Human Rights Watch confirms her arrest and indirectly denies the claims of the Qatari authorities by Amal al-Malki, dean and professor at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Doha, that “Noof is in good hands.”

Where Malki claimed on Instagram, citing what she called credible sources without mentioning her, “they assured me that Noof was being taken care of and decided to devote time to getting all the support she needed.”

The American press described the young woman, Al-Maadeed, as a prominent critic of the status of women in her country, Qatar, after she used her accounts on social media to denounce the guardianship system, which requires Qatari women to obtain the consent of men in every activity they do.

The Daily Mail said that Qatar’s guardianship system, which was strongly criticized by Al Maadeed, required women to rely on men for permission to marry, travel abroad, pursue higher education and access to reproductive health care.

The newspaper confirmed that it is also illegal in Qatar for those under the age of 25 to travel without a male consent, but, in 2019, when she was 21 years old, Nouf took her father’s phone, and used a government app to obtain an exit permit, before leaving home and take a flight to Britain.

The newspaper revealed that Noof, who later settled for two years in Cardiff, had “abruptly revoked her asylum application in Britain, and returned to Qatar after the authorities gave her assurances that she would be safe,” which was also confirmed by the British Interior “voluntarily returned to Qatar.”

Noof Al-Maadeed

Qatar’s election to the United Nations Human Rights Council this October, which coincided with the arrest of Al – Maadeed, has received widespread criticism from international human rights organizations of the Doha Criminal Human Rights register.

At a time when tweets are still tweeting, and 19 days after her disappearance, after the Qatari authorities have reneged on their promises to her for protection and safety, they are interacting with the activist Nouf’s case under the hashtag “Where is Noof” demanding that her fate be revealed, and as one of the tweeters wrote, “Where is Noof, owners of false promises…Noof’s case is the cause of every Qatari woman.”

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