DOHA: A criminal court has sentenced a fisherman to a year in jail after he ventured into the Qatari territorial waters with his vessel illegally and tried to prevent arrest by hitting the boat of the Qatari coast guard.
The court, however, kept its sentence in suspension for three years and ordered that the fisherman be deported.
A witness from Qatar’s coast guards told the judges that when they sighted the fishing vessel they fired two warning shots for it to stop, but instead of stopping the man in the vessel tried to hit the boat of the security guards with his vessel.
“We, however, managed to stop his vessel and arrest him,” said the witness.
The Peninsula
