Dr. Ali bin Sumaikh Al Marri
London: Chairman of the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) Dr. Ali bin Sumaikh Al Marri said that the humanitarian side is the most affected by the siege crisis on the State of Qatar.
He noted that the siege countries targeted during the crisis the lives of Gulf people and residents in the Gulf region in all aspects including health, education, work, and social sides, stressing that this crisis was fabricated to legitimize the violations of humanity, which has become open and clear to all.
This came during the meeting of Dr. Al-Marri in London today with HE Karen Pierce, Director General Political, UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, as part of a series of tours he has been making since the beginning of the crisis with officials of foreign affairs and human rights in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs in European capitals and the United States.
During the meeting, Dr. Al-Marri gave an explanation to the British official on the latest developments of the Gulf crisis. He pointed out that the siege countries continue to violate human rights, in a flagrant violation of international conventions, including even the right to practice religious rites, for political differences.
He reviewed the broad steps of the National Human Rights Committee to combat these violations at all international forums and urged the competent organizations to fulfill their international and moral responsibilities towards these violations. He called on the British Foreign Office to continue its role and international duty towards this crisis through its human rights mechanisms together with international organizations to condemn these violations and make pressure to end them.
Al-Marri noted that neutrality is unacceptable when thousands of people are threatened. "We can not be impartial in cases of violations, and silence about them is not only a denial of international conventions but a denial of international principles and ethics," he added.
Dr. Al-Marri expressed deep dissatisfaction with the outcome of the recent meeting of the ministers of the siege countries in Manama, and said that the Manama meeting complicated the crisis further, and prolonged the violations.
The Chairman of the National Human Rights Committee praised the great role played by British journalists' organizations and syndicates in combating the violations resulting from the siege on the State of Qatar.
Dr. Al Marri also praised the great international sympathy with those affected by the siege crisis, including the citizens of the State of Qatar, residents of the country, citizens of the GCC countries and the rest of the other nationalities, in addition to the great response that he has received during his tours of many European capitals and the great support of the media and major press organizations and their condemnation of the demands of the closure of the Qatari TV channels and the violation of freedom of opinion and expression.
He stressed the positions of human rights organizations rejecting the violations of the siege and the recent movements of these organizations by condemning the ban on pilgrims from citizens and residents of the State of Qatar from carrying out the Hajj by setting procedural obstacles and spreading the discourse of hatred and incitement against them in the official media in the countries of siege.
