A statement issued by the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the UAE Federal Court of Appeal’s endorsement of the ruling issued against Omani citizen Abdullah Al-Shamsi to life imprisonment after being accused of collaborating with the State of Qatar contravenes justice and facts.

The statement stressed that the accusations are reprehensible, null, and unfounded and have no basis in reality or law, and that they violate the policy of the State of Qatar towards all countries.

The statement considered that the ruling is based on reasons that have nothing to do with the law, but rather for known reasons, and that it reveals the unacceptable behavior of the UAE authorities that affects the rights of the Gulf citizen.

Human Rights Watch had previously said that a UAE court had sentenced Al Shamsi to life in prison in May 2020 after a grossly unfair trial.

A family member said that after the arrest of Abdullah Al Shamsi in August 2018 - who was 19 years old at the time and was a high school student in the UAE - State Security subjected him to incommunicado detention, prolonged solitary confinement and torture, and Omar Al Shamsi is now 21 years old. , And he has depression and kidney cancer.

Family members told Human Rights Watch that the trial of al-Shamsi - which began in February 2020, more than a year and a half after his arrest - was marked by violations of due process, including preventing him from contacting a lawyer during interrogation and accepting a confession he claims was forced as evidence.