New Delhi/Doha-Qatar, November 14, 2020: The UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impacts of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, Alena Douhan, on Thursday urged Middle East countries to lift sanctions against Qatar. The report followed Douhan’s 12-day visit to Qatar to “assess the impact of unilateral sanctions imposed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Arab Republic of Egypt.”

According to reports, Douhan noted that the measures “isolated Qatar from its neighbours and limited substantially its access to the wider world.” The measures taken by the four states included banning “aircraft registered in Qatar … from landing in their territory or transiting through their airspace.” It also included suspending postal services with Qatar.

Additionally, the four states closed their “land borders, air and sea ports, and airspace to Qataris,” expelling “almost 3000 Qataris from their territories.” The states also took other unilateral measures against Qatar, including blocking “access to Qatar-based media channels and websites” and “criminalizing the expression of sympathy with Qatar.”

These sanctions were imposed after the four states announced on June 5, 2017, that they were “severing diplomatic relations with Qatar.” The states accused Qatar of supporting militant groups.

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