CAIRO — Nine months after Law No. 11 was issued in September 2018 regulating political asylum, Qatar’s council of ministers unveiled May 23 the relevant conditions and requirements.
Political asylum was expanded to include politicians and fugitives involved in political cases and human rights advocates fleeing their country of origin. Under the decision, media correspondents, journalists and human rights advocates who are being prosecuted and threatened in their country of origin; politicians who are members of political parties, sects and religious groups; and writers, researchers, and former and current government officials who oppose their governments are now allowed to seek asylum in Qatar.